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Hi John,
thanks for the article. Unfortunately it does not cover how to find out the right values for all those fancy attack types TMOS can detect and stop. There are differences based on BIG-IP/VIPRION hardware and of course there are differences in the backend hardware. The BIG-IP i5800 has default a value for pps of 2.147.483.647. This number of pps is much to high for a "standard" Virtual Machine server.
There is a Whitepaper from David Holmes, listing Best Practices to mitigate DDoS attacks (https://f5.com/resources/white-papers/f5-ddos-protection-recommended-practices), but unfortunately it's completely outdated. It would be great if this would be updated, based on the most recent TMOS versions and features.
Greets, Sven