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Enabling UDP Flood Protection

UDP flooding occurs when an attacker sends IP packets containing UDP datagrams with the purpose of slowing down the victim to the point that the victim can no longer handle valid connections.

Before You Begin

For background information, read Understanding UDP Flood Attacks.

To enable UDP flood protection, use the JUNOS CLI configuration editor, The specified zone is where a flood might originate.

Note: The value unit is UDP packets per second. The default value is 1000 packets per second.

user@host# set security zones security-zone external screen external-udp-flood
user@host# set security screen 1000-udp-flood udp flood threshold 1000

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