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Demonstration of Device DoS and Per-Service DoS protection

Dear Reader, This article is intended to show what effect the different threshold modes have on the Device and Per-Service (VS/PO) context. I will be using practical examples to demonstrate those ef...
Published Apr 08, 2020
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Sven_Mueller
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Jan 26, 2023

Hi Maxi,
right the script does only show the auto-calculated values, not the manual thresholds.
Keep in mind the shown detection and mitigation values are per tmm and the stats_rate is an accumulates value.

Cheers, sVen