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 **WAN interfaces respond to ping and traceroute** - When enabled, this allows your device will reply to certain ICMP/UDP packets so that //ping //and //traceroute //from Internet hosts will work.
-**Limit communication to **- Specifies the maximum number of requests per second to which the Firewall will reply. Setting a limit number is recommended to prevent DDoS attacks.\\
+**Limit communication to **- Specifies the maximum number of requests per second to which the Firewall will reply. Setting a limit number is recommended to prevent DDoS attacks.
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 **Enable TCP SYN cookies** - Enabling this protects the router from SYN Flood attacks via a well-known technique called "SYN cookies". This function encodes information from the SYN packet into the response (SYN/ACK). Despite being a standard technique, enabling this will create some secondary limitations that may not be handled well by some old TCP/IP stacks.

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