[nsp] IP NAT Ager gobbling CPU

Gert Doering gert at greenie.muc.de
Thu Oct 9 14:39:52 EDT 2003


Hi,

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:59:21AM -0700, atticus at satanic.org wrote:
> On an NPE-400, I'm burning huge amounts of CPU (~40%) on IP NAT Ager. NAT
> is about the only thing the router does, but its currently aging ~225
> translations per second, w/ the total active hovering around 15k. All of
> the connections are TCP.

Sounds like "many virus port scans inside".

Check "show ip nat tra" for typical virus signs.

gert
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