Smurf attacks - monitor but do not deny

From: Alex De Gruiter \(AU\) (Alex.deGruiter@didata.com.au)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2006 - 22:36:50 ART


Hi Guys,

I have a question about monitoring attacks (in particular, Smurf). There
has been some very good coverage of Smurf attacks in this forum in the
past, however I have a question about monitoring rather than preventing
smurf attacks altogether.

Lets say you have a question asking to monitor the volume and source of
suspected smurf attacks (or, for that matter, another type of attack
identifiable through an ACL - such as fraggle), however you do not want
to block any traffic.

Would the following ACL provide the necessary logging data:

<config>

ip access-list extended DoSMONITOR
  permit icmp any 192.168.0.255 0.0.255.0 echo log
  permit icmp any 192.168.0.255 0.0.255.0 echo log
  permit ip any any

int serial 0/1
  ip access-group DoSMONITOR in

logging buffered informational

</config>

I'm wondering how to respond if a question asks you to log but not deny
a DoS attack. Anyone feel free to comment on anything in the above mail
- always keen to learn.

Alex

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