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  • The Cisco switch must be configured to protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing control plane protection.

    The Route Processor (RP) is critical to all network operations because it is the component used to build all forwarding paths for the data plane via control plane processes. It is also instrumental...
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  • SRG-NET-000205-RTR-000002

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  • The Cisco switch must be configured to drop all fragmented Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packets destined to itself.

    Fragmented ICMP packets can be generated by hackers for DoS attacks such as Ping O' Death and Teardrop. It is imperative that all fragmented ICMP packets are dropped.
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  • SRG-NET-000362-RTR-000111

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  • The Cisco switch must be configured to have Gratuitous ARP disabled on all external interfaces.

    A gratuitous ARP is an ARP broadcast in which the source and destination MAC addresses are the same. It is used to inform the network about a host IP address. A spoofed gratuitous ARP message can c...
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The content of the drawer really is up to you. It could have form fields, definition lists, text lists, labels, charts, progress bars, etc. Spacing recommendation is 24px margins. You can put tabs in here, and can also make the drawer scrollable.

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