Denial of Service (DoS) Protection

Support for DoS protection in the VM Edition of the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller differs from the Oracle Hardware Platforms Edition because of the absence of Oracle network interface hardware. In the VM Edition. DoS protection is implemented in the software and consumes CPU cycles when responding to attacks.

The VM Edition handles media packet fragments differently from the Oracle Hardware Platforms Edition by processing the fragments in the data path rather than in the host application code. Protection against fragment attacks is ensured because fragments are never kept more than 5 ms.