Section 3: Session Limit
The Session Limit feature permits you to drop any new sessions from both the WAN and LAN side when the number of sessions exceed a maximum amount within a sampling time.
Figure 17. Session Limit |
Session Limit - Settings
The period of time to count the new session. Only those new sessions occurring in the most recent sampling time will be counted for limit checking. (Default: 400 milliseconds)
If the number of new sessions exceed the maximum limit during the sampling time, all new sessions created will be dropped by the gateway. (Default: 65535 session/sec)
If the number of new sessions for the host exceed the maximum sampling time, any new sessions of the host will be dropped. (Default: session/second)
If the number of dropped new sessions for the host exceed the maximum sampling time, any new session of the host will be dropped for the pause time.
During the duration of the pause time no new session of the suspended host will by served by the gateway. (Default: 5 minutes)
