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- Contents
- About This Document
- Network Security
- TCP SYN attacks
- IP TCP syn-proxy
- Granular application of syn-proxy feature
- Syn-def
- No response to non-SYN first packet of a TCP flow
- Prioritizing management traffic
- Peak BP utilization with TRAP
- Transaction Rate Limit (TRL)
- Understanding transaction rate limit
- Configuring transaction rate limit
- Configuring the maximum number of rules
- Saving a TRL configuration
- Transaction rate limit command reference
- Global TRL
- TRL plus security ACL-ID
- security acl-id
- Transaction rate limit hold-down value
- Displaying TRL rules statistics
- Displaying TRL rules in a policy
- Displaying IP address with held down traffic
- Refusing new connections from a specified IP address
- HTTP TRL
- Overview of HTTP TRL
- Configuring HTTP TRL
- Displaying HTTP TRL
- Display all HTTP TRL policies
- Display HTTP TRL policy from index
- Display HTTP TRL policy client
- Display HTTP TRL policy starting from index
- Display HTTP TRL policy matching a regular expression
- Display HTTP TRL policy client index (MP)
- Display HTTP TRL policy client index (BP)
- Display HTTP TRL policy for all client entries (BP)
- Downloading an HTTP TRL policy through TFTP
- HTTP TRL policy commands
- Logging for DoS Attacks
- Maximum connections
- clear statistics dos-attack
- Maximum concurrent connection limit per client
- Firewall load balancing enhancements
- Syn-cookie threshhold trap
- Service port attack protection in hardware
- Traffic segmentation
- DNS attack protection
- Access Control List
- How ServerIron processes ACLs
- Default ACL action
- Types of IP ACLs
- ACL IDs and entries
- ACL entries and the Layer 4 CAM
- Configuring numbered and named ACLs
- Modifying ACLs
- Displaying a list of ACL entries
- Applying an ACLs to interfaces
- ACL logging
- Dropping all fragments that exactly match a flow-based ACL
- Enabling ACL filtering of fragmented packets
- Enabling hardware filtering for packets denied by flow-based ACLs
- Enabling strict TCP or UDP mode for flow-based ACLs
- ACLs and ICMP
- Using ACLs and NAT on the same interface (flow-based ACLs)
- Displaying ACL bindings
- Troubleshooting rule-based ACLs
- IPv6 Access Control Lists
- Network Address Translation
- Syn-Proxy and DoS Protection
- Understanding Syn-Proxy
- Configuring Syn-Proxy
- DDoS protection
- Configuring a security filter
- Configuring a Generic Rule
- Configuring a rule for common attack types
- Configuring a rule for ip-option attack types
- Configuring a rule for icmp-type options
- Configuring a rule for IPv6 ICMP types
- Configuring a rule for IPv6 ext header types
- Binding the filter to an interface
- Clearing DOS attack statistics
- Clearing all DDOS Filter & Attack Counters
- Logging for DoS attacks
- Displaying security filter statistics
- Address-sweep and port-scan logging
- Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Acceleration
- SSL overview
- SSL acceleration on the ServerIron ADX
- Configuring SSL on a ServerIron ADX
- Basic SSL profile configuration
- Advanced SSL profile configuration
- Configuring Real and Virtual Servers for SSL Termination and Proxy Mode
- Configuration Examples for SSL Termination and Proxy Modes
- SSL debug and troubleshooting commands
- Displaying socket information
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Enabling strict TCP or UDP mode for flow-based ACLs
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Syntax: [no] hw-drop-acl-denied-packet
Enabling strict TCP or UDP mode for flow-based ACLs
By default, when you use ACLs to filter TCP or UDP traffic, the Brocade device does not compare all
TCP or UDP packets against the ACLs.
For TCP and UDP, the device first compares the source and destination information in a TCP control
packet or a UDP packet against entries in the session table. The session table contains forwarding
entries based on Layer 3 and Layer 4 information:
• If the session table contains a matching entry, the device forwards the packet, assuming that
the first packet the device received with the same address information was permitted by the
ACLs.
• If the session table does not contain a matching entry, the device sends the packet to the CPU,
where the software compares the packet against the ACLs. If the ACLs permit the packet
(explicitly by a permit ACL entry or implicitly by the absence of a deny ACL entry), the CPU
creates a session table entry for the packet’s forwarding information and forwards the packet.
For TCP, this behavior by default applies only to control packets, not to data packets. Control
packets include packet types such as SYN (Synchronization) packets, FIN (Finish) packets, and RST
(Reset) packets.
For tighter access or forwarding control, you can enable the device to perform strict TCP or UDP ACL
processing. The following sections describe the strict modes in more detail.
Enabling strict TCP mode
By default, when you use ACLs to filter TCP traffic, the Brocade device does not compare all TCP
packets against the ACLs. Instead, the device compares TCP control packets against the ACLs, but
not data packets. Control packets include packet types such as SYN (Synchronization) packets, FIN
(Finish) packets, and RST (Reset) packets.
In normal TCP operation, TCP data packets are present only if a TCP control session for the packets
also is established. For example, data packets for a session never occur if the TCP SYN for that
session is dropped. Therefore, by filtering the control packets, the Brocade device also implicitly
filters the data packets associated with the control packets. This mode of filtering optimizes
forwarding performance for TCP traffic by forwarding data packets without examining them. Since
the data packets are present in normal TCP traffic only if a corresponding TCP control session is
established, comparing the packets for the control session to the ACLs is sufficient for filtering the
entire session including the data.
However, it is possible to generate TCP data packets without corresponding control packets, in test
or research situations for example. In this case, the default ACL mode does not filter the data
packets, since there is no corresponding control session to filter. To filter this type of TCP traffic,
use the strict ACL TCP mode. This mode compares all TCP packets to the configured ACLs,
regardless of whether the packets are control packets or data packets. If the ACLs permit the
packet, the device creates a session entry for forwarding other TCP packets with the same Layer 3
and Layer 4 addresses.