Netband Project - CoPP

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Control Plane Policing

• The Control Plane Policing feature allows users to configure a quality of service (QoS) filter that manages the traffic flow of control plane packets to protect the control plane of Cisco IOS routers and switches against reconnaissance and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
• CoPP can help maintain packet forwarding and protocol states despite an attack or heavy traffic load on the router or switch.
• Uses MQC (Modular QoS CLI)
• Prior to 12.4(4)T it was only possible to configure the aggregate interface

Control Plane Protection

• Introduces subinterfaces to the control plane(12.4T)
• Aggregrate Control Plane Policing
  • Control Plane cef-exception subinterface
    • receives all traffic that is either redirected as a result of a configured input feature in the CEF packet forwarding path for process switching or directly enqueued in the control plane input queue by the interface driver.
    • Eg. ARP, L2 Keepalives and all non-IP host traffic.
  • Control Plane host subinterface
    • receives all control-plane IP traffic that is directly destined for one of the router interfaces.
    • All host traffic terminates on and is processed by the router.
    • Eg. SSH, SNMP, BGP, OSPF, Tunnel termination and EIGRP.
  • Control Plane transit subinterface
    • receives all control-plane IP traffic that is software switched by the route processor.

Configuration

Versions prior to 12.4(4)T or if you only want to configure the aggregate interface

ip access-list extended coppacl-igp
 permit ospf any host 224.0.0.5
 permit ospf any host 224.0.0.6
 permit ospf any any
!
ip access-list extended coppacl-management
 permit tcp 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any eq 22
 permit tcp 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any eq telnet
 permit udp host 10.1.1.10 any eq snmp
 permit udp host 10.0.0.11 any eq ntp
!
ip access-list extended coppacl-monitoring
 permit icmp any any ttl-exceeded
 permit icmp any any port-unreachable
 permit icmp any any echo-reply
 permit icmp any any echo
!
ip access-list extended coppacl-critical-app
 permit udp host 0.0.0.0 host 255.255.255.255 eq bootps
 permit udp host 10.1.1.11 eq bootps any eq bootps
!
class-map match-all coppclass-igp
 match access-group name coppacl-igp
class-map match-all coppclass-management
 match access-group name coppacl-management
class-map match-all coppclass-monitoring
 match access-group name coppacl-monitoring
class-map match-all coppclass-critical-app
 match access-group name coppacl-critical-app
class-map match-all coppclass-layer2
 match protocol arp
!
policy-map copp-policy
 class coppclass-igp
 class coppclass-management
  police rate 250 pps conform-action transmit exceed-action drop
 class coppclass-monitoring
  police rate 50 pps conform-action transmit exceed-action drop
 class coppclass-critical-app
  police rate 75 pps conform-action transmit exceed-action drop
 class coppclass-layer2
  police rate 25 pps conform-action transmit exceed-action drop
 class class-default
  police rate 10 pps conform-action transmit exceed-action drop
!
control-plane
 service-policy input copp-policy

External Links

Prior to 12.4(4)T
CoPP
12.4(4)T and forward
CoP extended feature set
CoPP best practice design guide