[nsp] Nachi worm mitigation finds bug in 7500 dCEF

Greg Steele steele at oar.net
Wed Aug 27 11:57:00 EDT 2003


I have experimentally verified (although not for an extended period)
that the problem is expressly with using a NAMED access-list rather
than a NUMBERED access-list.

using this access list and map:

ip access-list extended nachilist
 permit icmp any any echo
 permit icmp any any echo-reply
route-map nachiworm permit 10
 match ip address nachilist
 match length 92 92
 set interface Null0

works on 1700/2600/3600/7200 and 7500 without dCEF
Appears to also drop other types of packets WITH dCEF as if the
access-list match is not in the route-map.

using this seems to fix:

access-list 196 permit icmp any any echo
access-list 196 permit icmp any any echo-reply
route-map nachitest permit 10
 match ip address 196
 match length 92 92
 set interface Null0

I have asked cisco to verify.

...Greg


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