You'll need to identify the sources/ protocols etc and rate limit them. E.g. Ping of Death is avoided by either dropping icmp-echo-request or rate limiting them to 5 per second. Need to use iptables for that. Mohan -----Original Message----- From: lartc-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lartc-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Webadmin Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 6:20 PM To: lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [LARTC] Need help please Hi All; We've been getting some DDOS attack recently, due to this I was just wondering if we use some network traffic control techniques in order to reduce the risk of having the DDOS attack?? is this possible after all?? can we use the traffic control techniques in order to redu reduce the DDOS attack??? -- Best Regards WebAdmin, Salam2U.com \\\ ||| /// ( @ @ ) --oOOo-(_)-oOOo---------- _\=/_ (o o) --oOOo-(_)-oOOo------ ______________________ Revolution does not require corporate support That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously. -- Benjamin Franklin _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/