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Enabling Protection Against a SYN-ACK-ACK Proxy Flood Attack

Malicious users can fill up the firewall session table to the point where the device begins rejecting legitimate connection requests by continuously initiating SYN-ACK-ACK sessions.

Before You Begin

For background information, read Understanding SYN-ACK-ACK Proxy Flood Attacks.

To enable protection against a SYN-ACK-ACK proxy flood, use the JUNOS CLI configuration editor. The specified zone is where the attack originated.

Note: The value unit is connections per source address. The default value is 512 connections from any single address.

user@host# set security screen 1000-syn-ack-ack-proxy tcp syn-ack-ack-proxy threshold 1000
user@host# set security zones security-zone zone screen 1000-syn-ack-ack-proxy

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