Minimum Security For LVS box ?

[Malcolm Turnbull <malcolm.turnbull@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Assuming that you have an LVS loadbalancer running on a linux box
and this box is behing a firewall so that only ports 80 & 443 are 
allowed from clients.
Do you really need to harden the loadbalancer firewall rules ?

i.e. should I enable things like SYN cookie protection etc ?





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