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You cant protect from a DDoS with a hardware firewall, a DDoS consists of so much bandwidth that your network hardware is not able to simply handle the incoming
by tpetry 6y ago
You cant protect from a DDoS with a hardware firewall, a DDoS consists of so much bandwidth that your network hardware is not able to simply handle the incoming traffic before any filtering happens. Your expensive hardware firewall can protect from DoS attacks, but they don‘t happen anymore as DDoS attacks are really cheap.
- e40 6y agoCan you can protect yourself from certain types of things (SYNC flood) with a firewall, though.
- richardwhiuk 6y agoIt's easier to protect against SYN floods if you terminate the connection.
- richardfey 6y agoIn any situation where you need to create a filter rule that needs to run fast against a lot of TCP sessions a hardware firewall will do it faster than your general purpose server. It's not about protection but mitigation.