On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Joshua Young <joshua.yo...@mdirss.org> wrote: > We have recently been the target of DDoS attacks. The same interface is > targeted each time. Is there any way we can shut down this interface > automatically when this happens? Is there a way to maybe set a threshold > for traffic and, when it reaches that threshold, automatically shut the > interface down? When this happens, the pfSense is overwhelmed and our > entire WAN loses Internet connectivity. I figure if we can shut the one > interface that is being targeted down before the traffic gets to the point > of saturating our bandwidth, then just that one network would be down > rather than our entire WAN. > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers > people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets > people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they > could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential." > > > - Steve Ballmer > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Josh Young > Educational Technology Coordinator > > *Mount Desert Island Regional School System - AOS 91* > 1081 Eagle Lake Road, Mt. Desert, ME 04660 > P.O. Box 60, Mt. Desert, ME 04660 > Phone: (207) 288-5049 | Fax: (207) 288-5071 > _______________________________________________
Can we have more details on the DDoS attack? Are you sure their are no other solutions then shutting it down? Why would it freeze? Is a service hosted by pfSense being attacked? _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
