A Study on the Iptables Ruleset Against DoS Attacks

Although a variety of preparation methods for DoS attacks and DDoS attacks are presented, it is still being exploited, the vulnerability with networks and protocols. In particular, When was built environment that can be used anywhere in the Internet, Internet of Things is entering era. Thus, the conventional computer, as well as household appliances, etc. DoS attack targets or are likely to do the attacker role is increasing. In this paper, we first find out about the type and characteristics of DoS attacks. Open source operating system, Linux has iptables that packet filtering tool and firewall programs. Using iptables to set the policy ruleset against DoS attacks.