Craig A. Huegen <chuegen@cisco.com>
Smurf Attack Description & Supression
NANOG 11     10
Prevention Techniques
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BugID CSCdj35407 - “fast drop” ACL code
This bug fix optimizes the way that packets denied by an ACL are dropped within IOS, reducing CPU utilization for large amounts of denied traffic.
First major release of integration is 11.1(14)CA
Not available in 11.2 yet, but coming
BugID CSCdj35856 - ACL logging throttles
This bug fix places a throttle in IOS which will allow a user to specify the rate at which logging will take place of packets which match a condition in an ACL where “log” or “log-input” is specified.
First maintenance release of integration is 11.1(14.1)CA
Not available in 11.2 yet, but coming