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P-660H/HW-D Series User’s Guide
Chapter 10 Firewall Configuration
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If your network is slower than average for any of these factors (especially if you have servers 
that are slow or handle many tasks and are often busy), then the default values should be 
reduced.
You should make any changes to the threshold values before you continue configuring 
firewall rules. 
10.10.2  Half-Open Sessions
An unusually high number of half-open sessions (either an absolute number or measured as 
the arrival rate) could indicate that a Denial of Service attack is occurring. For TCP, "half-
open" means that the session has not reached the established state-the TCP three-way 
handshake has not yet been completed (see 
). For UDP, "half-open" 
means that the firewall has detected no return traffic.
The ZyXEL Device measures both the total number of existing half-open sessions and the rate 
of session establishment attempts. Both TCP and UDP half-open sessions are counted in the 
total number and rate measurements. Measurements are made once a minute.
When the number of existing half-open sessions rises above a threshold (max-incomplete 
high
), the ZyXEL Device starts deleting half-open sessions as required to accommodate new 
connection requests. The ZyXEL Device continues to delete half-open requests as necessary, 
until the number of existing half-open sessions drops below another threshold (max-
incomplete low
).
When the rate of new connection attempts rises above a threshold (one-minute high), the 
ZyXEL Device starts deleting half-open sessions as required to accommodate new connection 
requests. The ZyXEL Device continues to delete half-open sessions as necessary, until the rate 
of new connection attempts drops below another threshold (one-minute low). The rate is the 
number of new attempts detected in the last one-minute sample period.
10.10.2.1  TCP Maximum Incomplete and Blocking Time
An unusually high number of half-open sessions with the same destination host address could 
indicate that a Denial of Service attack is being launched against the host. 
Whenever the number of half-open sessions with the same destination host address rises above 
a threshold (TCP Maximum Incomplete), the ZyXEL Device starts deleting half-open 
sessions according to one of the following methods:
• If the Blocking Time timeout is 0 (the default), then the ZyXEL Device deletes the oldest 
existing half-open session for the host for every new connection request to the host. This 
ensures that the number of half-open sessions to a given host will never exceed the 
threshold. 
• If the Blocking Time timeout is greater than 0, then the ZyXEL Device blocks all new 
connection requests to the host giving the server time to handle the present connections. 
The ZyXEL Device continues to block all new connection requests until the Blocking 
Time
 expires.