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Cisco IOS Stateful Packet Inspection maintains counters of the number of "Half-open" TCP connections, as well as the total connection rate through the firewall and intrusion prevention software. These half-open connections are TCP connections that have not completed the SYN - SYN/ACK - ACK handshake that is always used by TCP peers to negotiate the parameters of their mutual connection. Cisco IOS Firewall also regards User Datagram Protocol (UDP) sessions with traffic in only one direction as "Half-open", as nearly all applications that use UDP for transport will acknowledge reception of data. UDP sessions without acknowledgement are likely indicative of DoS activity, or attempts to connect between two hosts where one of the hosts has become unresponsive.

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Date:Jul 2006
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