Section 2: Threat Identification and Mitigation – 2.1 to 2.5 (CCIE Notes)

2.1 Identify and protect against fragmentation attacks Background Info: IP fragmentation is the process of breaking up a single Internet Protocol (IP) datagram into multiple packets of smaller size. Every network link has a characteristic size of messages that may be transmitted, called the maximum transmission unit (MTU). The Attack(s): IP fragmentation exploits (attacks) use the fragmentation protocol within IP as an attack vector. […]Image may be NSFW.
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