[c-nsp] ASR9k for large scale NAT?

Nick Hilliard nick at foobar.org
Tue Mar 6 12:09:04 EST 2012


On 06/03/2012 14:14, Nikolay Shopik wrote:
> As soon IOS NAT sees close/fin or fin/ack bits, it set session to 5 minutes
> to expire. So only not proper closed session become there for 24 hours iirc.

that would make a nice nat slot DoS vector.  Sounds like on a public facing
device you would want to tune this down to something quite small.

Nick



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