Session Setting |
Description |
Rematch Sessions
|
Click
Edit
and select
Rematch Sessions
to cause the firewall to apply newly configured security policies to sessions that are already in progress. This capability is enabled by default. If this setting is disabled, any policy change applies only to sessions initiated after the policy change was committed.
For example, if a Telnet session started while an associated policy was configured that allowed Telnet, and you subsequently committed a policy change to deny Telnet, the firewall applies the revised policy to the current session and blocks it.
|
ICMPv6 Token Bucket Size
|
Enter the bucket size for rate limiting of ICMPv6 error messages. The token bucket size is a parameter of the token bucket algorithm that controls how bursty the ICMPv6 error packets can be (range is 10–65,535 packets; default 100).
|
ICMPv6 Error Packet Rate
|
Enter the average number of ICMPv6 error packets per second allowed globally through the firewall (range is 10–65,535 packets/second; default is 100 packets/second). This value applies to all interfaces. If the firewall reaches the ICMPv6 error packet rate, the ICMPv6 token bucket is used to enable throttling of ICMPv6 error messages.
|
Enable IPv6 Firewalling
|
To enable firewall capabilities for IPv6, click
Edit
and select
IPv6 Firewalling.
All IPv6-based configurations are ignored if IPv6 is not enabled. Even if IPv6 is enabled for an interface, the
IPv6 Firewalling
option must also be enabled for IPv6 to function.
|
Enable Jumbo Frame
Global MTU
|
Select to enable jumbo frame support on Ethernet interfaces. Jumbo frames have a maximum transmission unit (MTU) of 9192 bytes and are available on certain platforms.
If you do not check
Enable Jumbo Frame, the
Global MTU
defaults to 1500 bytes (range is 576–1,500).
If you check
Enable Jumbo Frame, the
Global MTU
defaults to 9,192 bytes (range is 9,192–9,216 bytes.
If you enable jumbo frames and you have interfaces where the MTU is not specifically configured, those interfaces will automatically inherit the jumbo frame size. Therefore, before you enable jumbo frames, if you have any interface that you do not want to have jumbo frames, you must set the MTU for that interface to 1500 bytes or another value. To configure the MTU for the interface (
Network > Interfaces > Ethernet), see
Layer 3 Interface.
|
NAT64 IPv6 Minimum Network MTU
|
Enter the global MTU for IPv6 translated traffic. The default of 1280 bytes is based on the standard minimum MTU for IPv6 traffic.
|
NAT Oversubscription Rate
|
Select the DIPP NAT oversubscription rate, which is the number of times that the same translated IP address and port pair can be used concurrently. Reducing the oversubscription rate will decrease the number of source device translations, but will provide higher NAT rule capacities.
Platform Default
—Explicit configuration of the oversubscription rate is turned off; the default oversubscription rate for the platform applies. See platform default rates at
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/product-selection.html.
1x
—1 time. This means no oversubscription; each translated IP address and port pair can be used only once at a time.
2x
—2 times
4x
—4 times
8x
—8 times
|
ICMP Unreachable Packet Rate (per sec)
|
Define the maximum number of ICMP Unreachable responses that the firewall can send per second. This limit is shared by IPv4 and IPv6 packets.
Default value is 200 messages per second (range is 1–65,535).
|
Accelerated Aging
|
Enables accelerated aging-out of idle sessions.
Select this option to enable accelerated aging and specify the threshold (%) and scaling factor.
When the session table reaches the
Accelerated Aging Threshold
(% full), PAN-OS applies the
Accelerated Aging Scaling Factor
to the aging calculations for all sessions. The default scaling factor is 2, meaning that accelerated aging occurs at a rate twice as fast as the configured idle time. The configured idle time divided by 2 results in a faster timeout of one-half the time. To calculate the session’s accelerated aging, PAN-OS divides the configured idle time (for that type of session) by the scaling factor to determine a shorter timeout.
For example, if the scaling factor is 10, a session that would normally time out after 3600 seconds would time out 10 times faster (in 1/10 of the time), which is 360 seconds.
|
Multicast Route Setup Buffering
|
Select this option to enable multicast route setup buffering, which allows the firewall to preserve the first packet in a multicast session when the multicast route or forwarding information base (FIB) entry does not yet exist for the corresponding multicast group. By default, the firewall does not buffer the first multicast packet in a new session; instead, it uses the first packet to set up the multicast route. This is expected behavior for multicast traffic. You only need to enable multicast route setup buffering if your content servers are directly connected to the firewall and your custom application cannot withstand the first packet in the session being dropped. This option is disabled by default.
|
Multicast Route Setup Buffer Size
|
If you enable Multicast Route Setup Buffering, you can tune the buffer size, which specifies the buffer size per flow (range is 1–2,000; default is 1,000.) The firewall can buffer a maximum of 5,000 packets.
|