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      latheesan
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      Hi Everyone.

      Let me start by saying, thanks for this wonderful project.

      I run a small cPanel hosting service and I am trying to address the issue with SYN/Sppofed-SYN attacks we've been getting lately on our server.
      First of all, can pfSense + SNORT module help with stopping SYN/SSYN attacks? To what extent?

      All the DOS/DDOS filtered dedicated hosting is too expensive (the goods ones anyway), so I was planning on investing on a new server and set it up like this (I am complete newbie with pfSense with some knowledge about networking - enough to get by). I was wondering if this setup would work?

      The Server

      e3 Xeon 1230
      4 Cores 8 Threads
      16GB RAM
      1+TB HD/120+GB SSD
      1Gbps Port

      The Setup

      I will be using XEN Hyper-V (http://xen.org/products/xenhyp.html) and on the server, there will be two VPS:

      1. pfSense VPS
      2. cPanel VPS (running VPS Optimised cPanel)

      Some questions I had (for now)

      • Would I be able to use one VPS to filter the traffic and pass it onto the other VPS running cPanel?

      • Is there any limitation with one NIC on the physical server? Will I need more?

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        chpalmer
        last edited by

        Im no means in any way an expert but will link CMB from another thread:

        http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,51238.0.html

        Triggering snowflakes one by one..
        Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590T CPU @ 2.00GHz on an M400 WG box.

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