RE: [nsp] TCP Intercept

From: Scott.Keoseyan@BroadWing.com
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 12:46:48 EDT


You're thinking of the issues with using blackhole routes and firewall stuff
that Rob Thomas talks about in his Secure IOS template?

http://www.cymru.com/~robt/Docs/Articles/secure-ios-template.html

I thought there was some issue with using tcp-intercept and ip verify
unicast reverse-path together as well... but I am not certain.

Scott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Lewis [mailto:jlewis@packetnexus.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 3:23 AM
> To: 'Nick'; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [nsp] TCP Intercept
>
> This is a useless reply, but I recall some issues with TCP intercept. I
> was
> looking at implementing it, but the issues kept me from doing so. It may
> have been memory use or the use of CEF....
>
> I will look for my notes. Does anyone know what I am talking about?
> (yeah
> I know I am making no sense)
>
> Jason Lewis
> http://www.packetnexus.com
> It's not secure "Because they told me it was secure".
> The people at the other end of the link know less
> about security than you do. And that's scary.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick [mailto:nick@arc.net.my]
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 3:05 AM
> To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
> Subject: [nsp] TCP Intercept
>
>
> We are planning to implement TCP intercept in our router to prevent DOS
> attacks on some of our servers. Looking at the options that can be used
> eg.
> intercept mode, drop mode, watch timers, finrst-timeout, aggressive
> thresholds, etc - are there any recommended values to use, any formula or
> 'it will be right if we use default values'. Anything to watch out for or
> any other advice?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -nick
>

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