How To Find Out Whether Hardware Attack Filtering Has Been Activated - Cisco SCE 8000 10GBE Software Configuration Manual

Monitoring Attack Filtering

How to Find out Whether Hardware Attack Filtering has been Activated

From the SCE> prompt, type show interface linecard 0 attack-filter current-attacks and press Enter.
Step 1
In the output from this command, look for the "HW-filter" field. If this field is "yes", the user must take
into account the probable inaccuracies in the attack reporting.
Note that this information also appears in the attack log file.
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Viewing the Attack Log
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The Attack Log
The attack-log contains a message for each specific-IP detection of attack beginning and attack end.
Messages are in CSV format.
The message for detecting attack beginning contains the following data:
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The message for detecting attack end contains the following data:
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Cisco SCE 8000 10GBE Software Configuration Guide
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Dest IP|Protocol
|Duration
|10.1.1.1 |Subscriber|
| *|TCP
The Attack Log, page 12-32
How to View the Attack Log, page 12-33
How to Copy the Attack Log to a File, page 12-33
IP address (Pair of addresses, if detected)
Protocol Port number (If detected)
Attack-direction (Attack-source or Attack-destination)
Interface of IP address (subscriber or network)
Open-flows-rate, suspected-flows-rate and suspected-flows-ratio at the time of attack detection
Threshold values for the detection
Action taken
IP address (Pair of addresses, if detected)
Protocol Port number (If detected)
Attack-direction (Attack-source or Attack-destination)
Interface of IP address
Number of attack flows reported/blocked
Action taken
Chapter 12 Identifying and Preventing Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks
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|Susp. rate | flows / |
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|Action|HW- |force-
|filter|filter
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