The open source Linux operating system provides a secure foundation for communications
Benefits of the open source foundation include:
Security experts worldwide review the source code looking for defects or vulnerabilities.
Avaya engineers monitor and review Linux OS enhancements developed by the Linux community to incorporate the enhancements in Avaya products.
Linux based Avaya servers and gateways protect against DoS attacks such as SYN floods, ping floods, malformed packets, oversized packets, and sequence number spoofing.
Note Because of operating system hardening, Messaging does not respond to the following:
ICMP timestamp
TCP timestamp
Address-mask queries
broadcast ping