Users Guide

Security Commands 1176
Default Configuration
Denial of Service is disabled.
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: 0-16376). If size is
unspecified, the value is 512.
Default Configuration
Denial of Service is disabled.
Command Mode
Global Configuration mode