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The system must set maximum number of half-open TCP connections to 4096.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

This setting controls how many half-open connections can exist for a TCP port. It is necessary to control the number of completed connections to the system to provide some protection against denial of service attacks.

ID
SV-216378r959010_rule
Version
SOL-11.1-050110
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

The Network Management profile is required

Configure maximum TCP connections for IPv4 and IPv6.

# pfexec ipadm set-prop -p _conn_req_max_q0=4096 tcp