Hello,
I've had increasing problems with my h/w firewall over the past weeks due to 'syn flood to host (outbound)' problems. Turns out my modded version of firefox triggers the f/w to hysterically shut down the connection (flood control). (I still don't know why this has only recently become a problem, as I've made NO h/w or s/w changes, and have no viruses/spyware.)
I've basically tried to desensitise the f/w by adjusting: 'Maximum incomplete TCP/UDP sessions number from same host', (which was originally 10) to 50 (max). This seems to work for the moment.
I don't want to set this too high, leaving my network vulnerable to dos attacks, but I also don't want my surfing restricted by my own firewall(!) What is the correct (permissible) maximum value I should have this set to?