Re: TCP SYN attacks

[dvv () sprint net (Dima Volodin)]

Any data on how the firewall itself withstands SYN attacks? How much
resources are needed to cope with a real attack? From what I've read in
their white paper it's just a piece of SYN-processing code that was
duplicated (functionally) in the gateway, so all concerns about resource
usage and speed seem to be still valid.


Dima

Richard Stiennon writes:
> Check out the elegant solution just announced by Checkpoint:
>
> http://www.checkpoint.com/fw21/syndefender/syndefender-white.html
>
> This is a firewall solution. I like the psuedo-NAT done to adjust sequence
> number.
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