Using Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM)
- Connect to the firewall via SSH and log into Expert mode:
expert - Run the
fw samcommand to block traffic to and from the target IP:fw sam -t 0 -b -s <IP_Address>-t 0sets the timeout (0 means indefinite, or specify seconds like-t 3600for 1 hour).-bblocks both source and destination directions.-sspecifies the source IP address to block. [1]
Alternatively, for high-performance accelerated drops using SecureXL, you can use the fwaccel dos deny utility: [1]
fwaccel dos deny -a <IP_Address>fw samp block -d <IP-Address> -u <Unique-Name>
fw samp unblock -u block_bad_ip