09-03-2004 07:47 AM - edited 03-09-2019 08:42 AM
When ever we have a virus on one of our customer sites it loads the firewall up with NAT translations. Is it possible to limit the number of nat translations the firewall allows for one IP? Or the number of connections per IP. We want to stop the firewall from crashing every time we have a virus on a site.
Thanks.
Dave
09-03-2004 08:47 AM
If it is a PIX ?
You have three choices to stop virus infected hosts:
1.) You limit Configuring Maximum Connections and Embryonic Connection Limits to Protect Against Initiating DoS Attacks:
Usage: [no] nat [(
max_conns = The maximum connections permitted to hosts accessed from local_ip. The default = 0 (unlimited).
em_limit = The maximum embryonic connection permitted to hosts accessed from local_ip. The default = 0 (unlimited).
pixfirewall(config)# nat (inside) 1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 5000 5000
pixfirewall(config)# nat (dmz) 1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 500 500
Do a "show nat" to see which NAT number is assignet to your global with the same number.
example:
pix(config)# sh nat
nat (inside) 1 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 0 0
nat (inside) 1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0 0
See: http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=24685&seqNum=4
This needs a "clear xlate" that resets after changing the nat options.
This should be done usully outside the business hours.
2.) Other option could be, add an inside access-list and block the unnneded protocol, ports or hosts !
Identify the hosts and try add a temporary access-list to the inside interface.
example:
access-list inside deny ip host 192.168.1.200 any
access-list inside deny ip host 192.168.1.33 any
access-list inside permit ip any any
access-group inside in interface inside
or limit a hosts protocol
access-list inside deny icmp host 192.168.1.200 any eq echo
access-list inside deny tcp host 192.168.1.20 any eq www
access-list inside permit ip any any
access-group inside in interface inside
3.) Use the "shun" command to block a host.
Hope it helps
Patrick
09-03-2004 11:25 AM
Acutally it is not a PIX, its a 3662. Do any of these apply to the 3600?
Dave
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