Proper Port Forwarding

[Michael Powell]

Michael Sierchio wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Simon <simon at optinet.com> wrote:
> 
>> This easily causes DoS for when too many FIN_WAIT_2 are created and IPFW
>> stops forwarding using the rule above because of "too many dynamic rules"
> 
> Change the defaults for the fw.dyn sysctl MIB nodes
> 
> to something like
> 
> net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_short_lifetime=3
> net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_udp_lifetime=3
> net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_rst_lifetime=1
> net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_fin_lifetime=1
> net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_syn_lifetime=10

There is also this you can place in /etc/sysctl.conf:

net.inet.tcp.fast_finwait2_recycle=1

I do this for my web servers. It helps reduce the volume somewhat  of 
FIN_WAIT_2 from building up by expiring them sooner. 

-Mike