Management-interface packet-rate protection

A description of internal packet-rate protection, which is enabled by default.

The management interface of the physical and virtual sensors have internal packet rate protection enabled by default.

Malicious hosts are banned for five minutes if they try to send more than 1024 packets within five seconds.

To show a list of blocked internet protocol (IP) addresses, you can use the n2os-firewall-show-block command.

To unblock a single IP address, you can use the n2os-firewall-unblock <ip_address_to_unblock> command.