Watchguard V10 User Manual page 165

Hacker Prevention Configuration
2 You can customize and apply the following two groups
of options at this time:
Denial-of-service settings: These options safeguard your
servers from denial-of-service (DOS) attacks. These
attacks flood your network with requests for
information, clogging servers and possibly shutting
down your network. After you activate these options
and set thresholds, the Firebox Vclass appliance
prevents such attacks. If more than the specified
number of requests are received (per second), the
Firebox Vclass appliance drops the specified excess
number of requests within the same second, while it
permits the specified number of requests to pass
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