prevent flooding on firerwall

masand · 08-09-2005, 03:19 PM

any suggesitons on how to prevent flooding on the firewall

some one referred me using APF for iptables and BFD(brute force detection)
this will help me in keping a chelkc on flooding on my firewall machine

i am presently using shorewall for iptables and though i am dropping all packets on that machine, there is flooding on the network , due to some virus on windows machines.
this cause the firewall on the proxy to disfunction

regards

SlackerLX · 08-09-2005, 03:40 PM

How about manual config of iptables?

masand · 08-09-2005, 03:49 PM

i have been using shorewall for a long time now
but i won't mind shifting to manul mode for iptables so solve my problem

but i believe that if we some way of preventing through iptables then that might have been integerated in shorewall too

anyway,what insight can u provide in this problem

regards

SlackerLX · 08-09-2005, 03:53 PM

I believe that soft is a soft. Any programmer while creating adds personal stuff and "improvements" so to speak. Again, I think using iptables on low level of run is the answer