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Enabling Protection Against a Land Attack

Combining a SYN attack with IP spoofing, a land attack occurs when an attacker sends spoofed SYN packets containing the IP address of the victim as both the destination and source IP address.

Before You Begin

For background information, read Understanding Land Attacks.

To enable protection against a land attack, use the JUNOS CLI configuration editor. The specified zone is where the attack originates.

user@host# set security screen land tcp land
user@host# set security zones security-zone zone screen land

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