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Sunday, March 1, 2015

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Protection - RHEL 7




• Netfilter: iptables target SYNPROXY
• DDoS attacks are increasingly becoming commonplace as more and more products and services become dependent
on delivering services over the Internet.
• SYNPROXY module is designed to protect against common SYN-­floods and ACK-­floods, but can also be adjusted to
protect against SYN-­ACK floods.
• Works by filtering out false SYN-­ACK and ACK packets before the socket enters the “listen” state lock (otherwise
preventing new incoming connections)
• Significant step for fighting DDoS and protecting critical system services.
• Example configuration (intended for a web server):
sysctl: net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_tcp_loose=0 [DEFAULT=1]
# iptables -­t raw -­A PREROUTING -­i eth0 -­p tcp -­-­dport 80 -­-­syn -­j NOTRACK
# iptables -­A INPUT -­i eth0 -­p tcp -­-­dport 80 -­m state UNTRACKED,INVALID \
-­j SYNPROXY -­-­sack-­perm -­-­timestamp -­-­mss 1480 -­-­wscale 7 –ecn
DDoS

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