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HostDos no functioning as expected on Enterasys/Extreme S6 Model

HostDos no functioning as expected on Enterasys/Extreme S6 Model

Sarafa_Ibrahim
New Contributor

‎06-29-2017 12:58 PM

I enabled HostDos on the S6 chassis switch to drop SYN FLOOD packets over 1000pps threshold, but these packets still bypass the switch as they hit the firewall LAN interface - I am running the SYN Flood test locally. I checked the logs and there were no hits on the HostDos stats menu for SynFlood. Please I need insights into this. What could be wrong? I set the threshold on the firewall to 1200pps and I confirmed the S6 was blacklisted as SYN packets received were over 1200pps - which tells me the S6 did not drop those packets when it got hit by them.

Thank you for your time.
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Drew_C
Valued Contributor III

‎06-30-2017 02:16 PM

Welcome to The Hub, Sarafa!
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Daniel_Coughlin
Extreme Employee

‎06-29-2017 01:35 PM

Hostdos only protects the host complex of the S-series. The packets are still allowed to transit on the vlans they exist on.
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Sarafa_Ibrahim
New Contributor
In response to Daniel_Coughlin

‎06-29-2017 01:35 PM

Thanks, Daniel! I'd keep that in mind.
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Daniel_Coughlin
Extreme Employee
In response to Daniel_Coughlin

‎06-29-2017 01:35 PM

Sarafa, If you need more help the GTAC is always an option.
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