bkvalentine:
Could someone please explain why the SG uses 496000 bps as the rate-limit? The task asks to police the traffic to 500Kbps. I'm trying to decide if I need to bang my head on the wall for a few hours to reinforce some math concept in that I am forgetting.
Thanks in advance.
Nevemind. As soon as I posted this I decided I would look up the rate-limit command. The command reference says that you must use 8kbps increments.
Given that, I suggest that the soultion provided by the SG violates this task. Because the solution given polices to 496Kpbs, not 500kbps as required.
Here's my solution:
R5:
interface FastEthernet0/1
service-policy input P2P
service-policy output TCP_TO_WEBSERVER
class-map match-all TCP_TO_WEBSERVER
match access-group name TCP_TO_WEBSERVER
policy-map TCP_TO_WEBSERVER
class class-default
service-policy P2P
policy-map ATTACK_MITIGATION
class TCP_TO_WEBSERVER
police rate 500000
ip access-list extended TCP_TO_WEBSERVER
permit tcp any 173.X.5.0 0.0.0.255 eq www syn