Security
Denial of Service Prevention
372 Cisco 350, 350X and 550X Series Managed Switches, Firmware Release 2.4, ver 0.4
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To define Martian addresses: 
STEP 1 Click Security > Denial of Service Prevention > Martian Addresses.
STEP  2 Select Reserved Martian Addresses and click Apply to include the reserved Martian 
Addresses in the System Level Prevention list.
STEP  3 To add a Martian address click Add.
STEP  4 Enter the parameters.
• IP Version—Indicates the supported IP version. Currently, support is only offered for 
IPv4.
• IP Address—Enter an IP addresses to reject. The possible values are:
- From Reserved List—Select a well-known IP address from the reserved list.
- New IP Address—Enter an IP address.
• Mask—Enter the mask of the IP address to define a range of IP addresses to reject. The 
values are:
- Network Mask—Network mask in dotted decimal format.
- Prefix Length—Enter the prefix of the IP address to define the range of IP addresses 
for which Denial of Service prevention is enabled.
STEP  5 Click Apply. The Martian addresses are written to the Running Configuration file.
SYN Filtering
The SYN Filtering page enables filtering TCP packets that contain a SYN flag, and are 
destined for one or more ports. 
To define a SYN filter:
STEP 1 Click Security > Denial of Service Prevention > SYN Filtering.
STEP  2 Click Add.
STEP  3 Enter the parameters.
• Interface—Select the interface on which the filter is defined.