What is the biggest attack in GBPS you stopped
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They do not offer ddos mitigation other than nullrouting.
Ah, ok this was not clear to me!
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You are.
That is an unorthodox way of arguing, Supermule; proving an item's inadequacies by proving your inability to skillfully operate said <thing>(pfSense, Linux, Ford F150, shovels, pants, etc). To continually defend your stance, it is in your self-interest to not only stay ignorant, but perhaps even choose to learn exclusively the wrong ways of using <thing>. The worse your skills become with <thing>only validates your stand-point more and more. A strange way to prove a point… ;)
ghislain26, you say you can get your device installed earlier in the HOPs? Is this data-center multi-homed?</thing></thing></thing>
If you are so smart and "godlike" then pls. post a working config and an IP that I can target.
Then I will prove my point…
When logging, it can be both TCP and UDP. UDP floods tends to be bandwith consuming and TCP are specific protocols and maybe L7 traffic like VSE, RUDY or ARME Scripts...
OVH takes down pfSense at once no matter the bandwith. We have seen as low as 40mbit to make it completely useless and servers are unreachable.
Either become part of the solution to your problem, or move on. Perhaps create a thread dedicated to your problem and all the logical steps you have taken to isolate the bug. What led you to suspect that your bug affects all unix-based operating systems?
What sort of things have you already eliminated as potential culprits? Have you already confirmed the cause of your bug?Being light on the details and heavy on the emotion says obvious things about your intent, though… I could be wrong. :)
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I can't believe this thread is on to the second page…
You cannot mitigate a DDoS attack with a single firewall/router. If it was that easy, don't you think Sony, Microsoft and anyone running a cloud service would do it and DDoS would be a thing of the past? If it was that easy, why are there services like CloudFlare that specialize in DDoS protection? Only global traffic inspection & load-balancing will do it for you... if you're willing to pay.
Give up on this notion of blocking DDoS with pfSense.
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Listen….pfSense replies to specific traffic in a non orderly fashion. It chokes itself...
And yes you can. ASk yourself why people say it cant be done. Because they pay BIG bucks to get protected.....
But in fact they dont. They just get null routed and then wait for services to come back online.
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Listen….pfSense replies to specific traffic in a non orderly fashion. It chokes itself...
And yes you can. ASk yourself why people say it cant be done. Because they pay BIG bucks to get protected.....
But in fact they dont. They just get null routed and then wait for services to come back online.
Can I see some proof, or must I trust you?
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And yes you can. ASk yourself why people say it cant be done. Because they pay BIG bucks to get protected…..
But in fact they dont. They just get null routed and then wait for services to come back online.I'm not sure who you're talking to here.
Can I see some proof, or must I trust you?
Heh, give him a public IP of one of your routers and perhaps you may see for yourself…
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Null routing won't protect you against spoofed source IPs. It's the firewall's job to drop out of state packets, not die. I understand that the fast path is if the state already exists, I understand that running through the rules is not quite as fast as the fast path, but that's not the issue either. The issue is dropped packets are some how the most expensive path of all, to the point that the router dies with only a relatively trickle of them.
Maybe this is more of a FreeBSD issue than PFSense, but it seems to be something misconfigured or a fundamental flaw.
Step 1) See if packet is part of an existing flow, if so pass, else goto step 2
Step 2) Check packet against rules, if passes, create new flow, else goto step 3
Step 3) Drop packet then jump off a cliffStep 3 needs to be fixed to not be so emo.
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I forgot that this was an issue that only occurred when lots of source IP+ports were used, not that dropping packet is expensive. PFSense handles a single source attempting to DOS, but the exact same attack as a DDOS, even with the same number of PPS, will result in PFSense crapping its pants.
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@KOM:
You cannot mitigate a DDoS attack with a single firewall/router. If it was that easy, don't you think Sony, Microsoft and anyone running a cloud service would do it and DDoS would be a thing of the past? If it was that easy, why are there services like CloudFlare that specialize in DDoS protection? Only global traffic inspection & load-balancing will do it for you… if you're willing to pay.
i dont think sony was hit by only 6gbps, if i cannot protect me against ALL ddos i should be able to mitigate the lesser one. It's like saying there is no point to lock your door because bank are robbed ?
seems that everybody just say when a teenager get angry he pays 10 buck and boom goes your site, just null route it and wait a week or two and it will be okay or pay 9209318401841$ for a protection service with arbor ?
All i see until now is that nobody seems to use pfsense successfully for somethign bigger than a single Gb or they stay silent :) For now all agree that it (and freeBSD) cannot handle this.
Thanks for all the time you dedicated to answering me, i will continue my journey for a solution (i will continue to monitor the forum about this just in case).
best regards,
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Stopping someone from entering your home; pfSense can do that.
Stopping someone from picketing your house; pfSense cannot do that (from inside your house). You need to own the entire neighborhood.
I would like to see some examples of someone stopping, or even slightly mitigating, a UDP-based DDoS while only controlling the final hop.
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seems that everybody just say when a teenager get angry he pays 10 buck and boom goes your site, just null route it and wait a week or two and it will be okay
He don´t must pay anything, he download a software as many others allso and then they are
all attacking your site DoS is not DDoS! 8)or pay 9209318401841$ for a protection service with arbor ?
Dealing with 10 Gbit/s single or multiple time is no child game, this is business like
IT and this was never and will be never a game, journey or something for the "get it cheap"
generation, as I see it right. And if your DC is not able to prevent you from those attacks
will be showing up that this is not one option more to make money but more then spending
much more money then the most customers want to pay for. Because this could be done
it means also not that you are taking much money and solve it out for ever, because the
next DDoS attack could be then hitting you with 65 GBit/s and more sufficient hardware or
will services would be really urgent needed. With the Corero IPS 5500-2400ES you will be
able to protect your server and this was in my eyes the core of your question. For sure those
devices are not to shoot for some bucks at eBay and also not able to collect from the dump
for paying nothing. :DAll i see until now is that nobody seems to use pfsense successfully for somethign bigger than a single Gb or they stay silent :) For now all agree that it (and freeBSD) cannot handle this.
This is really sad in my eyes, only and because your wishes would not be able to solved out, we
are all now the small players in this scene? But I was telling you and by setting up a link something
how we protect our company by using Corero devices, and why we all are now using a single GBit/s
WAN line??? For sure we must pay for that and in this scenario also twice. ;)For now all agree that it (and freeBSD) cannot handle this.
If Lanner gets the FW-8895 working for pfSense and the Tilera packet processing cards will
be able to use, you get a fair change to work it out with OpenDPI, but as I read it between
the lines, it could be then also again very expensive and this is nothing for you and your business
as well you want it getting cheap. Because pfSense is OpenSource and free of cost, that is not
meaning that pfSense is not willing to have a adequate hardware basis to run smooth for the job!Thanks for all the time you dedicated to answering me, i will continue my journey for a solution (i will continue to monitor the forum about this just in case).
Then you can start here in 2012, same question and with the same answers.
Stop 10 Gbps of DDoS? :o -
EXACTLY!
And the funny shit is, that it dies also when changing SYNPROXY state to STATELESS!
What would that tell you??
Whats even funnier is that using OVH scripts and limiting the PPS pr. rule (even the block all rule) doesnt help. You can create an advanced ruleset with 100PPS and it still dies on specific scripts. Then the total bandwith will be very small, but pfSense dies…
Where to look for an error like that? Its buried deep within BSD/Linux.
I revived an old ISA Server 2006 and testet it out front and it wasnt affected when configured.
Null routing won't protect you against spoofed source IPs. It's the firewall's job to drop out of state packets, not die. I understand that the fast path is if the state already exists, I understand that running through the rules is not quite as fast as the fast path, but that's not the issue either. The issue is dropped packets are some how the most expensive path of all, to the point that the router dies with only a relatively trickle of them.
Maybe this is more of a FreeBSD issue than PFSense, but it seems to be something misconfigured or a fundamental flaw.
Step 1) See if packet is part of an existing flow, if so pass, else goto step 2
Step 2) Check packet against rules, if passes, create new flow, else goto step 3
Step 3) Drop packet then jump off a cliffStep 3 needs to be fixed to not be so emo.
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I would like to see some examples of someone stopping, or even slightly mitigating, a UDP-based DDoS while only controlling the final hop.
as long as you do not fill up the pipe i would have hoped a
INCOMMING UDP to this IP => DROP ALL
could let me have my web server continue working, this should not cost that much to a dual eight core xeon with multiple 10gbps chelsio T5 cards and plenty of ddr4 ram.
I understand i have only a theorical 2000ft view of it but the numbers seems to indicate that this level of hardware is theoricaly capable of handling the flow, now the cost of the operating system and tcp stack is a big part of unknow here but i was naively thinking it could do this.
I am not trying to do this on the cheap, what i am trying is to keep control of it, opensource is a way to keep control of what is done and beter than a blackbox imho. Also more important i am trying to see if anyone has such setup. All the answers here indicate that this is not the case and not feasible that i should look for an upstream protection. If this is the experience of people on the field i understand, i keep looking anyway.
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opensource is a way to keep control of what is done and beter than a blackbox imho.
OpenSource or Closed Source, Black Box or Self made Box, is all either for me. If I have a problem
and find one who is also able to solve it out, that is my dealer!See where they are placing their solution, between the routers and the firewalls.
And you try to find out a way to solve the problems out at only one point, the firewall.
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It's like saying there is no point to lock your door because bank are robbed ?
No, I'm saying that the strongest door you can find will happily collapse when it's being pounded on by a tank.
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Try to add this manually in the system -> tunables
kern.ipc.somaxconn = 32768
And test again. We have seen some improvement using that setting
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Try to add this manually in the system -> tunables
kern.ipc.somaxconn = 32768
And test again. We have seen some improvement using that setting
Was the improvement seen during a TCP or UDP DDoS?
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Test using TCP scripts.
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@KOM:
It's like saying there is no point to lock your door because bank are robbed ?
No, I'm saying that the strongest door you can find will happily collapse when it's being pounded on by a tank.
If what Supermule is saying is correct, 70-80 Mbps is no tank. It's like a spit wad pea shooter.
If pfSense really can be taken down by that, that is a huge serious issue.
Its in the OS. Hardware can easily handle it if you got some muscle.
I can take this site offline using a specific type of traffic that takes no more than 70-80Mbps bandwith.
When that traffic hits pfSense, its dead. Goes offline instantly. No matter how powerful the hardware is.
I run 8 Core, 16GB ram and SSD. Dead in a second if it hits.
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It is. And we have contacted the dev. team but no replies at all from Chris on this issue. (2-3 mths).
