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Connect_Admin_1
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Jul 23, 2011

DDOS Attack and our LTM 6400

Our website is under a pretty heavy DDOS attack. Ive been through the startup process, and we are able to limit the open connections, however what we are finding is that it's still limiting legitimate...
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David_Holmes_9
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Jul 26, 2011

Hi,

 

 

Are you still under attack?

 

Are you able to classify the attack traffic?

 

Is it all layer 7 (HTTP), or are you receiving layer 4 attacks (syn-floods, etc) as well?

 

 

I ask for two reasons:

 

 

1. The nature of the attacks will determine the response and

 

2. I'm collecting data about DDOS attacks for future defenses.

 

 

Thanks