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Does the IG200/2000 provide protection from LAND, Teardrop, Smurf and other attacks?

April 26, 2017attacks ig200 land smurf teardrop

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Does the IG200/2000 provide protection from LAND, Teardrop, Smurf and other attacks?

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Yes. A LAND attack is where the source and destination of an incoming packet are identical and therefore forged malicious traffic; the IG will note the source address for future attempts and drop the material. Similarly, other protocol manipulation attacks are stopped as well.