Chapter 15: Denial of Service Defenses
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Section II: Advanced Operations
Teardrop Attack
An attacker sends an IP packet in several fragments with a bogus offset
value, used to reconstruct the packet, in one of the fragments to a victim.
Because of the bogus offset value, the victim is unable to reassemble the
packet, possibly causing it to freeze operations.
The defense mechanism for this type of attack has all ingress fragmented
IP traffic received on a port sent to the switch’s CPU. The CPU samples
related, consecutive fragments, checking for fragments with invalid offset
values.
If one is found, the following occurs:
The switch sends an SNMP trap to the management stations.
The switch port is blocked for one minute.
Because the CPU only samples the ingress IP traffic, this defense
mechanism may not catch all occurrences of this form of attack.
Caution
This defense is extremely CPU intensive; use with caution.
Unrestricted use can cause a switch to halt operations if the CPU
becomes overwhelmed with IP traffic. To prevent this, Allied Telesis
recommends activating this defense on only the uplink port and one
other switch port at a time.
Summary of Contents for AT-S63
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Page 18: ...Tables 18 ...
Page 28: ...28 Section I Basic Operations ...
Page 58: ...Chapter 1 Overview 58 ...
Page 76: ...Chapter 2 AT 9400Ts Stacks 76 Section I Basic Operations ...
Page 96: ...Chapter 5 MAC Address Table 96 Section I Basic Operations ...
Page 114: ...Chapter 8 Port Mirror 114 Section I Basic Operations ...
Page 116: ...116 Section II Advanced Operations ...
Page 146: ...Chapter 12 Access Control Lists 146 Section II Advanced Operations ...
Page 176: ...Chapter 14 Quality of Service 176 Section II Advanced Operations ...
Page 196: ...196 Section III Snooping Protocols ...
Page 204: ...Chapter 18 Multicast Listener Discovery Snooping 204 Section III Snooping Protocols ...
Page 216: ...Chapter 20 Ethernet Protection Switching Ring Snooping 216 Section III Snooping Protocols ...
Page 218: ...218 Section IV SNMPv3 ...
Page 234: ...234 Section V Spanning Tree Protocols ...
Page 268: ...268 Section VI Virtual LANs ...
Page 306: ...Chapter 27 Protected Ports VLANs 306 Section VI Virtual LANs ...
Page 320: ...320 Section VII Internet Protocol Routing ...
Page 360: ...Chapter 30 BOOTP Relay Agent 360 Section VII Routing ...
Page 370: ...Chapter 31 Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol 370 Section VII Routing ...
Page 372: ...372 Section VIII Port Security ...
Page 402: ...Chapter 33 802 1x Port based Network Access Control 402 Section VIII Port Security ...
Page 404: ...404 Section IX Management Security ...
Page 436: ...Chapter 36 PKI Certificates and SSL 436 Section IX Management Security ...
Page 454: ...Chapter 38 TACACS and RADIUS Protocols 454 Section IX Management Security ...
Page 462: ...Chapter 39 Management Access Control List 462 Section IX Management Security ...
Page 532: ...Appendix D MIB Objects 532 ...