Watchguard V10 User Manual page 84

CHAPTER 3: Getting Started
Denial of service options
These options safeguard your servers from Denial of Ser-
vice (DoS) attacks. Denial of Service attacks flood your net-
work with requests for information, clogging your servers
and possibly shutting down your sites.
ICMP Flood Attack
SYN Flood Attack
UDP Flood Attack
Ping of Death
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Protects against a sustained flood of ICMP pings.
Select this checkbox, then type the threshold
number in the text field.
Protects against a sustained flood of TCP SYN
requests without the corresponding ACK response.
Select this checkbox, then type the threshold
number in the text field.
Protects against a sustained flood of UDP packets.
Select this checkbox, then type the threshold
number in the text field.
Protects against user-defined large data-packet
pings.
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