Denial Of Service - Motorola WiNG 5 System Reference Manual

13.3.19.2 Denial of Service

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Firewall
A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack is an attempt to make a computer resource
unavailable to its intended users. Although the means to carry out a DoS attack may vary, it generally consists of concerted
efforts to prevent an Internet site or service from functioning efficiently.
One common method involves saturating the target's machine with external communications requests, so it cannot
respond to legitimate traffic or responds so slowly as to be rendered effectively unavailable. DoS attacks are implemented
by either forcing the targeted computer(s) to reset, or consume its resources so it can't provide its intended service.
The DoS screen displays the types of attack, number of times it occurred and the time of last occurrence.
To view DoS attack information:
1. Select the Statistics
2. Select System
access point for statistical observation.
3. Select Firewall
4. Select Denial of
5. The Denial of Service
Attack Type
Count
Last Occurrence
menu from the Web UI.
from the navigation pane (on the left-hand side of the screen), expand the default node and select an
and expand the menu to reveal its sub menu
Service.
Figure 13-60 Access Point Firewall - Denial of Service screen
screen displays the following:
Displays the Denial of Service (DoS) attack type.
Displays the number of times the access point's firewall has observed each
listed DoS attack.
Displays the amount of time since the DoS attack has been observed by the
access point firewall.
items.
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