How to Prevent Booting?
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Hello,
I am new to (noob) networking and recently set up pfSense on my home network. Will be taking some networking classes in Fall 2020 semester, but in the meantime had a question.
Is there a way to prevent booting through pfSense. If I understand correctly, isn't that basically a low level DDOS attack that causes your machine to lag enough to get booted? I hear about it a lot in the gaming world (XBOX, PS4, etc.).
Thanks for your help.
No Sense at All -
Hi,
Correct, that makes no sense.
Also known as pure BS. -
If by "booting" you mean "getting kicked off a game server", then probably not. Not from a (D)DoS. If someone is flooding your connection with a DoS attack, the bandwidth is already consumed by the time it reaches the firewall. Local QoS does nothing. It must be mitigated upstream (at the ISP)
