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From: Brent Clark <bclark@eccotours.co.za>
Subject: Re: use of -m limit for Syn Flood protection
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 18:45:41 +0200
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Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> If you're trying to limit the SYNs to 4/sec, then the --limit should
> be "--limit 4/s" along with the --limit-burst 4.  Though, 4 SYNs per
> second is hardly a syn flood.  Also, you may want to specify the
> destination port of the syn flood to give more grainular control.

Hi Jiann

Thank you for your reply.

May I ask what you would consider a more realistic limit /value.

I currently have ports 25, 80 and 443 open. I would like to strive to get a respectable value that would cater for these ports.

Kind Regards
Brent Clark