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through. This protects your servers from becoming
overwhelmed by too many requests within a short
period of time.
ICMP Flood Attack
Safeguards your network from a sustained flood of
ICMP pings. After selecting the checkbox, type the
threshold number in the text field that will trigger
the denial-of-service protection.
SYN Flood Attack
Safeguards your network from a sustained flood of
TCP SYN requests without the corresponding ACK
response. After selecting the checkbox, type the
threshold number in the text field that will trigger
the denial-of-service protection.
UDP Flood Attack
Safeguards your network from a sustained flood of
UDP packets. After selecting the checkbox, type the
threshold number in the text field that will trigger
the denial-of-service protection.
Ping of Death
Safeguards your network from user-defined large
data-packet pings. Select the checkbox to activate
this denial-of-service protection.
IP Source Route
Safeguards your network from a flood of false
client IP addresses, designed to bypass firewall
security. Select the checkbox to activate this denial-
of-service protection.
Distributed Denial-of-service settings: As a subset of
denial-of-service attacks, distributed DOS attacks occur
when hackers coordinate a number of “borrowed”
computers for malicious purposes and program them
to simultaneously assault a network. If allowed to pass
through, these requests can overwhelm and crash your
Web servers. Your options include the following:
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