Dell PowerConnect 8024 - Dos-Control Icmp

944 Denial of Service Commands
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
This command has no user guidelines.
Example
The following example defines a minimum TCP header size of 20. Packets entering with a
smaller header size are dropped.
console(config)#dos-control firstfrag 20
dos-control icmp
Use the dos-control icmp command in Global Configuration mode to enable Maximum ICMP
Packet Size Denial of Service protections. If the mode is enabled, Denial of Service prevention is
active for this type of attack. If ICMP Echo Request (PING) packets ingress having a size greater
than the configured value, the packets are dropped.
Syntax
dos-control icmp [ size ]
no dos-control icmp
• size — Maximum ICMP packet size. (Range: 0-1023). If size is unspecified, the value is 512.
Default Configuration
Denial of Service is disabled.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode
User Guidelines
This command has no user guidelines.
Example
The following example activates the Maximum ICMP Packet Denial of Service protection with
a maximum packet size of 1023.
console(config)#dos-control icmp 1023