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Roger_101461
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Dec 15, 2011

"Blocking DOS attack" showed on ltm led,How to tracked attack surce?

Hey everyone,             A alert "Blocking DOS attack" showed on ltm led     And the Local Traffic log only have two logs which looks related.       "sweeper_upd...
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hoolio
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Dec 15, 2011
Hi Roger,

 

 

I don't think LTM logs any info on source IP address(es) when it goes into sweeper mode. These alerts are triggered when LTM runs low on memory. Here are a few related solutions:

 

 

sol4611: Overview of adaptive reaping

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/4000/600/sol4611.html

 

 

sol7301: Protecting the BIG-IP LTM against denial of service attacks

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/300/sol7301.html

 

 

Aaron