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A proactive approach to mitigating DoS and worm flooding attacks within enterprise networks is to respond immediately to inventory software free download via campus Access-Layer policers. Such policers can meter traffic rates received from endpoint devices and, when these exceed specified watermarks (at which point they no longer are considered normal flows), can mark down excess traffic to the Scavenger class marking (DSCP CS1).

In this respect, inventory software free download would be fairly "dumb." They would not be matching specific network characteristics of specific types of attacks, but they simply would be metering traffic volumes and responding to abnormally high volumes as close to the source as possible. The simplicity of this approach negates the need for the policers to be programmed with knowledge of the specific details of how the attack is being generated or propagated. It is precisely this "dumbness" of such Access-Layer policers that allows them to maintain relevancy as worms mutate and become more complex: The policers don't care how the traffic was generated or what it looks like; all they care about is how much traffic is being put onto the wire. Therefore, they continue to police even advanced worms that continually change the tactics of how traffic is being generated

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