Efficient Networks 107-0001-000 manual Firewall seticmpfloodthreshold, Firewall setdroppkthreshold

Efficient Networks® Router family	Chapter 18: Stateful Firewall Commands
Command Line Interface Guide

Parameters

<number>a Specifies the threshold value in dropped packets per second.

aInteger (200)

Example

Example command that sets the threshold to 150 dropped packets per second.

-> firewall setdroppkthreshold 150

Response

Command prompt.

firewall seticmpfloodthreshold

As a method to prevent a flooding of the system with ICMP requests, use this command set the threshold value for the number of ICMP packets per second. When the specified threshold is exceeded, the firewall will block any subsequent ICMP packets until the ICMP traffic drops below the threshold value. For more information on ICMP flood attacks, see “Stateful Firewall” on page 4-34.

Mgmt Class

Security (R/W)

Input Format

firewall seticmpfloodthreshold <number>

Parameters

<number>a Threshold value in packets per seconds.

aInteger (1000)

Response

Command prompt.

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