Re: Rate Limiting FTP

From: Bob Sinclair (bsin@cox.net)
Date: Mon May 30 2005 - 23:57:01 GMT-3


Simon,

NBAR can be used to identify passive FTP traffic. I was able to lab this up
with a 3620 running 12.2(15)T9. Matched protocol FTP and got hits on a
policy-map for passive-mode ftp upload.

HTH,

Bob Sinclair
CCIE #10427, CCSI 30427, CISSP
www.netmasterclass.net

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: simon hart
  To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
  Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 5:04 PM
  Subject: Rate Limiting FTP

  All,

  If one is asked to rate limit FTP then how is this achieved if the FTP
  sessions are Passive.

  My understanding is that with passive FTP random ports will be created for
  the source and destination ports. These ports are communicated via the FTP
  control session on port 21.

  Now if I classify my traffic using an acl, and I use the key word FTP, then
  it is only matching the control traffic on port 21. If I choose the
  ftp-data option then I shall be using port 20, but that is for Active
  sessions and I am keen to rate limit passive sessions.

  If I use Nbar, my understanding is that nbar will only match on the control
  channel, is this correct. If that is the case then there is no way to
match
  and thus rate limit a passive FTP data channel using either of these
  methods.

  Any help appreciated

  Simon
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