Re: Router/Switches and viruses

[Derek Nash <ddnash () gmail com>]

We saw it all the time at the ISP I worked for. A PC would pickup up a
nasty scanning type virus, SQL Slammer comes to mind, and would take
up all the NAT/PAT translation slots on a router/firewall. Routers
running NAT remain susceptible to this vulernability to my knowledge.
Most modern firewalls have source-based session limiting to prevent
this type of DOS.

Lastly I have seen HP Procurve Switches lock up from a port scan. This
is a known issue that has been fixed with a firmware upgrade.

On 5/3/05, Seek Knowledge <aseeker03 () yahoo com> wrote:
> Does anyone have any first-hand experience with a
> single infected desktop machine (or windows server for
> that matter) taking out a LAN switch? Would anyone
> have any stories from the trenches of an infected
> machine causing a directly connected router to stop
> functioning?
>
> If so, what could be done to prevent such an outage?
> What IDS/IPS strategy might one implement to prevent
> and or at least detect such an event?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> ASeeker
>
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Derek Nash; CISSP, CCSP, NCSP, MCSE

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