FreeBSD DDoS protection

Janne Snabb snabb at epipe.com
Sun Feb 10 12:48:59 UTC 2013


On 2013-02-10 03:57, khatfield at socllc.net wrote:
> Deny all ICMP (drop I mean) and UDP except where specifically required.

Please do not drop all ICMP unless you understand what you are doing. By
doing that you are creating a path MTU discovery blackhole.

See for example the following sites for more information:

http://www.phildev.net/mss/
https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-5839
http://www.cymru.com/Documents/icmp-messages.html
http://packetlife.net/blog/2008/oct/09/disabling-unreachables-breaks-pmtud/

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Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications
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