[FW-1] FloodGate good for DOS type attack?

[Raymond N <OutMail@FW1-NOSPAMARDENNET.COM>]

I don't have any experience on FloodGate at all.  But learn some info about
this product in trade show.  Just wondering if you think FloodGate is a
good tool to prevent (for example) massive of icmp-ping from one side of
the firewall to the other side of the network?  I mean those icmp-ping may
or may not target to the firewall interface directly, but to the machines
in the other side of the network.  Couple months ago, we experienced huge
amount of ping from worm-infected machines in one network to the other side
of the network, and the amount of traffic cause the firewall not able to
handle other type of traffic.

Thanks for your input.

-raymond

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