Re: No NetBios share + No Open Port = Safe Win98?

[Davide Minini <davide.minini () gmail com>]

  | A DDoS usually means that someone tries to consume the entire
  | bandwidth of your uplink. How could any kind of firewall mitigate that?


  It can, if the DDOS is a SYN flood attack on hosts behind;
  the firewall can at least protect the internal network and also
  reduce the DDOS average (think a WebStrike).
 



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