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(ASCEND) Win Nuke filtering doesn't work on MAX4000



Hi,

Our customers are experimenting nuke attacks very often.
We have a MAX4000 E1, load 6.0.2 - femk.40.
I visited a FAQ page from Ascend, and tried the filters indicated, EXACTELY
as shown:
------------ BEGIN OF FAQ -----------------
Question:
How do I protect my network against Win Nuke attacks?
Answer:
To protect your network against Win Nuke attacks, all you need
to do is to add a simple data filter to your ethernet port of
your Ascend MAX/Pipeline unit.

Create a new filter profile with the following properties:
Under Out Filter 01 -
Valid=Yes
Type=IP
IP... -
Forward=No
Protocol=6
Dest Port Cmp=Eql
Dest Port #=139

Out filter 02 -
Valid=Yes
Type=IP
IP... -
Forward=Yes

In filter 01 -
Valid=Yes
Type=IP
IP...  -
Forward=Yes

Under the Ethernet -> Mod Config -> Ether Options... menu:
Set Filter = 1 (or whichever filter profile you use)

----------------- END OF FAQ ---------------

Unfortunately, in a few minutes after starting those filters, the MAX
STOPPED TO RESPOND to all types of TCP/IP requests, from telnet to ping! I
had to access it via console, as LAN was inaccessible.

I talked to a friend that adviced me that there's a bug in Ascend filtering:
when one filters UDP (in my case, I was just trying ICMP filtering), the ARP
table becomes "full" (or something like), and the TCP stack becomes
unusable.

What am I doing wrong?
If this fails, how to avoid Win Nuke?

Regards,
Ricardo


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