Re: How NAT reacts on table flood ?

[bob.middaugh () comcast net (Bob Middaugh)]

Which version of FreeBSD?  What were you using to flood it?  Which direction?


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From: "Robert E. Lee" <robert () dyadsecurity com>
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:52:19 +0000
> bob.middaugh () comcast net (Bob Middaugh) wrote:
>
> > Use FreeBSD.  I've scanned aggressively with several nmap processes running, 
> with no problem at all....and that box also does stateful packet inspection.
>
> Your box will have a much higher threshold than say the linksys soho box, but 
> given enough connection attempts fast enough, will also roll over.
>
> I've performed this sort of state capability testing on every common platform.  
> All are susceptible to tieing up all free connections.  We even caused a freebsd 
> box to reboot after too many connections too quickly.
>
> Robert
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