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Shinichi_Kawai
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8 months ago

Inquiries about Advanced WAF DoS Protection

Hi All, The customer using the BIG-IP i2800 with v17.1 has some questions regarding the Advanced WAF "DoS Protection" feature. Hoping you can help me with a few things below:   1. What is the defi...
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Shinichi_Kawai
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8 months ago

Thanks for the quick reply, Injeyan! Here is my understanding:
- 1 HTTP request (L7) is counted as 1 transaction.
- Advanced WAF does not handle lower layers information such as TCP headers (L4) and IP headers (L3).

Q2 and Q3 are now clear as well.