Cisco Cisco Packet Data Gateway (PDG)
CSCF Security Configuration Mode Commands
threshold-rate ▀
Command Line Interface Reference, StarOS Release 16 ▄
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threshold-rate
Configures the rate per second at which the system must receive authorization failures or bad registration requests
before it considers the failures/requests a DoS attack.
before it considers the failures/requests a DoS attack.
Important:
The system will ignore the configuration of this command unless the
dos-prevention
command
has been enabled.
Product
SCM (P-CSCF, A-BG)
Privilege
Security Administrator, Administrator
Mode
Exec > Global Configuration > Context Configuration > CSCF Service Configuration > Proxy-CSCF Configuration >
CSCF Security Configuration
CSCF Security Configuration
configure > context context_name > cscf service service_name > proxy-cscf > security-
parameters
parameters
Entering the above command sequence results in the following prompt:
[context_name]host_name(config-security-parameters)#
Syntax
threshold-rate rate
default threshold-rate
default
Sets/restores the default value assigned to the specified command.
rate
Default: 1
Specifies the rate per second that the system must receive authorization failures or bad registration requests to
determine that it is under a DoS attack.
Specifies the rate per second that the system must receive authorization failures or bad registration requests to
determine that it is under a DoS attack.
rate
must be an integer from 1 to 1,000.
Usage
Use this command to specify the threshold rate for authorization failures or bad registration requests. For
example, if a malicious user sends bad registration requests at a rate of 5 per second and this parameter is set
to 10, the system will not consider itself under a DoS attack.
example, if a malicious user sends bad registration requests at a rate of 5 per second and this parameter is set
to 10, the system will not consider itself under a DoS attack.
Example
The following command sets the threshold rate to
5
authorization failures or bad registration requests per
second:
threshold-rate 5