Juniper Firewall UDP Flood Protection Threshold Recommendation

Products

• Cloud Secure Web Gateway - Cloud SWG

Issue/Introduction

What is the Juniper firewall's UDP flood protection threshold recommendation?

 

Environment

Web Security Service

Unified Agent

Juniper Firewalls

Cause

 

 

Resolution

We recommend using a threshold of around 100 UDP packets per second multiplied by the number of users on the corporate network.

For example, for 2500 users we would use an approximation of 250000 which should be enough and still leave some room for flood protection.