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Enabling ICMP Flood Protection

An ICMP flood typically occurs when ICMP echo requests overload its victim with so many requests that it expends all its resources responding until it can no longer process valid network traffic.

Before You Begin
For background information, read Understanding ICMP Flood Attacks.

To enable ICMP flood protection, you can use either J-Web or the CLI configuration editor. The specified zone is where a flood might originate.

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

This topic covers:

J-Web Configuration
CLI Configuration
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