Re: DOS attack over a 3COM Firewall

2002-02-14 Thread Ken Pohniman
Probably nothing much can be done. A firewall is not designed to mitigate a DoS attack. Although it can detect a DoS attack, it doesn't have enough juice to handle it without performance degradation, which is why you are not able to go out too. There are dedicated DoS mitigation devices out there

DOS attack over a 3COM Firewall

2002-02-12 Thread Jose Rayo
Hi everybody, We are now at this moment under a DOS attack in one of our firewalls. The firewall's behaviour is to prevent the intrusion, and cuts the communication. They are not able to enter, but we are not able to go out. The question is, Can we modify this behaviour in the firewall? What els