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Brocade MLX Series and NetIron Family Documentation Updates 55

53-1002805-03

Protecting against UDP attacks

The following section is an update to the NetIron Configuration Guide chapter titled Protecting

against Denial of Service Attacks, specifically to the section titles Protecting against UDP attacks.

Limitation

In the Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER, UDP rate-limiting will only work in the

following scenarios:

• When sending 1 % of 1G traffic with packet size of 64 bytes to the device for configured

Burst-max value (up to 8000)

• When sending 10 % of 1G traffic with packet size of 64 bytes to the device for configured

Burst-max value (up to 1500)

• When sending 100 % of 1G traffic with packet size of 64 bytes to the device for configured

Burst-max value (up to 500).

ACL accounting on Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER

devices

The following update has been applied to the

Enabling ACL accounting on Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER devices

NOTE

ACL accounting on Brocade NetIron CES and Brocade NetIron CER devices is applicable only on the

outbound counter, not the inbound counter.