Enabling Protection Against Naptha Attacks; Displaying And Maintaining Tcp Attack Protection - HP 6600 Security Configuration Manual

Enabling protection against Naptha attacks

Naptha attacks are similar to the SYN Flood attacks. Attackers can perform Naptha attacks by using the
six TCP connection states (CLOSING, ESTABLISHED, FIN_WAIT_1, FIN_WAIT_2, LAST_ACK, and
SYN_RECEIVED), and SYN Flood attacks by using only SYN_RECEIVED state.
Naptha attackers control a huge amount of hosts to establish TCP connections with the server, keep these
connections in same state (any of the six), and request for no data so as to exhaust the memory resource
of the server. As a result, the server cannot process normal services.
Protection against Naptha attacks mitigates such attacks by accelerating the aging of TCP connections
in a state. After the feature is enabled, the device (serving as a TCP server) periodically checks the
number of TCP connections in each state. If the device detects that the number of TCP connections in a
state exceeds the maximum number, it considers that a Naptha attack occurs and accelerates the aging
of TCP connections in this state. The device stops accelerating the aging of TCP connections when the
number of TCP connections in the state is less than 80% of the maximum number (1 at least).
To enable the protection against Naptha attack:
Step
1. Enter system view.
2. Enable the protection
against Naptha attack.
3. Configure the maximum
number of TCP
connections in a state.
4. Configure the TCP state
check interval.

Displaying and maintaining TCP attack protection

Task
Display current TCP connection state.
Command
system-view
tcp anti-naptha enable
tcp state { closing | established |
fin-wait-1 | fin-wait-2 | last-ack |
syn-received } connection-number
number
tcp timer check-state timer-value
Command
display tcp status [ | { begin | exclude |
include } regular-expression ]
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Remarks
N/A
Disabled by default.
Optional.
5 by default.
If the maximum number of TCP
connections in a state is 0, the
aging of TCP connections in this
state is not accelerated.
Optional.
30 seconds by default.
Remarks
Available in any view.