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HAPROXY anti DDOS - add stick tables to frontend & track HTTP request rate

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    nzkiwi68
    last edited by Sep 6, 2020, 12:13 AM

    HAPROXY has a lot of very powerful anti DOS and DDOS features which currently aren't implemented by pfSense.

    To do it properly, we need to be able to set stick tables on the frontend, tracking HTTP request rate and write ACL's to use it.

    These references show the config required;
    Application-Layer DDoS Attack Protection with HAProxy
    HAProxy Rate Limiting: Four Examples

    frontend website
        bind :80
        stick-table  type ip  size 100k  expire 30s  store http_req_rate(10s)
        http-request track-sc0 src
        http-request deny deny_status 429 if { sc_http_req_rate(0) gt 20 }
        default_backend servers
    
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      viktor_g Netgate
      last edited by Sep 6, 2020, 6:40 AM

      You can create a feature request: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/development/requesting-new-pfsense-features.html

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        xwx
        last edited by Nov 13, 2020, 5:38 PM

        Did you do it manually does it work? And if yes you modified config file or done it from UI ?
        Thanks.

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