Chapter 18: Stateful Firewall Commands
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Router family
Command Line Interface Guide
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firewall setsynfloodthreshold
As a method to prevent a flooding of the system with SYN requests, use this
command set the threshold value for the number of SYN packets per second. When
the specified threshold is exceeded, the firewall will block any subsequent SYN
packets until the SYN traffic drops below the threshold value. For more information on
SYN attacks, see “
Stateful Firewall” on page 4-34.
Mgmt Class
Security (R/W)
Input Format
firewall setsynfloodthreshold <number>
Parameters
Response
Command prompt.
<number>
a
a
Integer (200)
Threshold value in packets per seconds.