[c-nsp] Equipment for a large-ish LAN event

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Wed Dec 9 05:43:10 EST 2015


On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Roland Dobbins wrote:

> On 9 Dec 2015, at 8:19, Laurent Dumont wrote:
>
>> arp-inspection
>
> DAI is a self-defeating misfeature which can result in a self-DoS of the 
> switch.  Don't enable it!
>
> DHCP Snooping and IP Source Guard are very useful anti-spoofing mechanisms, 
> and should be enabled on the access ports.
>
> Also, Root Guard, Loop Guard, and BPDU-Guard should be enabled in a 
> situationally-appropriate manner.

Don't forget to enable this for IPv6 as well. Potentially you could use 
protocol based vlans and put each player port into its own /64 whch solves 
most of the complexity and dynamic inspection stuff, you could even have 
static ACLs on each subinterface/port if you want to.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se


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