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From: "Geffrey Velásquez" <g_netfilter@netfids.com>
To: pasik@iki.fi
Cc: mgale@utilitran.com, netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Protecting against DoS
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:20:09 -0500 (PET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36917.200.48.142.50.1070997609.squirrel@www.netfids.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031209171322.GE17221@edu.joroinen.fi>

Hum.. but what happen if the workstation is infected? the virus will do a
DoS to the user of the workstation, the firewall will block valid
connections.
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:06:50AM -0700, Michael Gale wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> 	You could try using a rate limit -- you could allow a machine to make
>> 	lets say 10 outbound
>> connections a second and then ...
>>
>> Depending on your network policy you could drop or log all other
>> outbound request.
>>
>
> This is what I'm planning to do.. and this is also the reason I was
> asking the questions in the original mail :-)
>
> -- Pasi Kärkkäinen
>
>                                   ^
>                                .     .
>                                 Linux
>                              /    -    \
>                             Choice.of.the
>                           .Next.Generation.





  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-09 19:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-09 15:43 Protecting against DoS Pasi Kärkkäinen
2003-12-09 16:02 ` Michael Gale
2003-12-09 16:28   ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2003-12-09 16:40     ` Michael Gale
2003-12-09 16:51       ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2003-12-09 17:06         ` Michael Gale
2003-12-09 17:13           ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2003-12-09 19:20             ` Geffrey Velásquez [this message]
2003-12-09 20:10               ` Arnt Karlsen
2003-12-10 16:53             ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2004-01-11  1:50               ` Peter Frischknecht
2004-01-11  8:04                 ` bridge vlans in HP 2524 switch Computer Security
2004-01-26 10:45                 ` Protecting against DoS Pasi Kärkkäinen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-09 19:11 Geffrey Velásquez
2003-12-09 18:01 ` John A. Sullivan III
2003-12-09 18:16   ` Ralf Spenneberg
2003-12-09 18:41     ` John A. Sullivan III

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