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June 3, 2009 at 07:11 AM
tmalo627

SYN Flood Attacks

by tmalo627 . Updated 17 years, 1 month ago

I am having a problem accessing our security cameras whether it’s through our vendor’s website who installed them or logging in directly to the DVR that is in the same subnet as the rest of our network.

I can ping the IP address of the DVR. I can pull up the web interface, but the video feeds are timing out.

When I try to access it via the vendor’s site, the logs on my firewall show a TCP SYN Flood attack with a source IP of my computer and the destination IP of the vendor’s site. But there is no SYN flood when I try to access the DVR directly.

From my understanding a the SYN flood, that source IP is probably being spoofed.

I am using a ZyXel Zywall 70 firewall, and I can’t seem to find any settings regarding the handling of SYN flood attacks. I have checked the users guide, and still can’t find anything.

Anyone have any ideas of what I can do??

A little extra info if needed:

My computer is running Windows XP Pro SP2. My DVR is running on a linux platform. I am unsure of the distro. I don’t know much about troubleshooting linux.

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