I have used embryonic connections option in the conduit statement.

And, I use it, only when I think that I am under a DoS attack against my 
servers.

But, I would to know if somebody here know what is the number of embryonic 
connections which stop a Windows NT.

I am not sure if the number is 5 (according to my IDIC from SANS)

Regards,

kefan

>Hi Rob,
>
>Generally the default timeout values should be fine.  These are *idle*
>timeout values, so if the connection is completed normally, the connection
>slot on the PIX is deleted and cannot be re-used in a continuation or
>spoofing attempt.
>
>Hope that helps,
>
>Lisa Napier
>Product Security Incident Response Team
>Cisco Systems
>http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/sec_incident_response.shtml
>
>
>
>At 12:44 PM 08/02/2000 -0400, Rob Serfozo wrote:
>>I have a Pix 515 and was wondering if anyone using a pix had suggestions 
>>on
>>the timeout settings.  Do you just leave the Xlate, conn, and other to 
>>their
>>default.  Or would it be a better security policy to lower these timeouts.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Rob Serfozo
>>
>>
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