What Roland said, I've seen people do this, no rules in place, still was able to kill the box (firewall) with a single CPU server.
-jim On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobb...@arbor.net> wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: > >> Use a robust firewall such as a Netscreen in front of your mitigation >> tool. > > Absolutely not - the firewall will fall over due to state-table exhaustion > before the mitigation system will. Firewalls (which have no place in front > of servers in the first place), load-balancers, and any other stateful > devices should be southbound of the mitigation system. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> > > Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. > > -- H.L. Mencken > > > > >
