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Re: Attacking on Source Port 0 (ZERO)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Sun Oct 14 22:03:16 2012

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:02:49 +0000
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On Oct 15, 2012, at 2:59 AM, Shahab Vahabzadeh wrote:

> I think it act like a warm or some attacks which cause high CPU load in s=
ome IOS.

i.e., a DDoS attack.

You should configure iACLs at your edge so that random sources on the Inter=
net can't packet your routers.  Hopefully, you have hardware-based edge dev=
ices, not just software-based devices and (awful) stateful firewalls - the =
days of software-based devices on the Internet were over years ago.

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