Configuring Attack Alert; Figure 86 Anti-Probing; Table 64 Anti-Probing - ZyXEL Communications ZyWall 35 User Manual

Figure 86 Anti-Probing

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 64 Anti-Probing

LABEL
Respond to PING
on
Do not respond to
requests for
unauthorized
services.
Apply
Reset

10.10 Configuring Attack Alert

Attack alerts are the first defense against DoS attacks. In the Threshold screen, shown later,
you may choose to generate an alert whenever an attack is detected. For DoS attacks, the
ZyWALL uses thresholds to determine when to drop sessions that do not become fully
established. These thresholds apply globally to all sessions.
You can use the default threshold values, or you can change them to values more suitable to
your security requirements.
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DESCRIPTION
The ZyWALL does not respond to any incoming Ping requests when Disable is
selected. Select LAN to reply to incoming LAN Ping requests. Select WAN to reply
to incoming WAN Ping requests. Select DMZ to reply to incoming DMZ Ping
requests. Otherwise select LAN & WAN & DMZ to reply to both incoming LAN and
WAN and DMZ Ping requests.
Select this option to prevent hackers from finding the ZyWALL by probing for
unused ports. If you select this option, the ZyWALL will not respond to port
request(s) for unused ports, thus leaving the unused ports and the ZyWALL
unseen. By default this option is not selected and the ZyWALL will reply with an
ICMP Port Unreachable packet for a port probe on its unused UDP ports, and a
TCP Reset packet for a port probe on its unused TCP ports.
Note that the probing packets must first traverse the ZyWALL 's firewall
mechanism before reaching this anti-probing mechanism. Therefore if the firewall
mechanism blocks a probing packet, the ZyWALL reacts based on the firewall
policy, which by default, is to send a TCP reset packet for a blocked TCP packet.
You can use the command "sys firewall tcprst rst [on|off]" to change this policy.
When the firewall mechanism blocks a UDP packet, it drops the packet without
sending a response packet.
Click Apply to save your changes back to the ZyWALL.
Click Reset to begin configuring this screen afresh.
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