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Re: Attacking on Source Port 0 (ZERO)


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:02:49 +0000


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 some IOS.

i.e., a DDoS attack.

You should configure iACLs at your edge so that random sources on the Internet can't packet your routers.  Hopefully, 
you have hardware-based edge devices, 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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