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ACL IP Options Selective Drop

Contents

Restrictions for ACL IP Options Selective Drop

Information About ACL IP Options Selective Drop

Using ACL IP Options Selective Drop

Benefits of Using ACL IP Options Selective Drop

How to Configure ACL IP Options Selective Drop

Configuring ACL IP Options Selective Drop

What to Do Next

Configuration Example for ACL IP Options Selective Drop

Configuring ACL IP Options Selective Drop: Example

Verifying ACL IP Options Selective Drop: Example

Additional References

Related Documents

Standards

MIBs

RFCs

Technical Assistance

Command Reference

ip options


ACL IP Options Selective Drop

First Published: July 22, 2002
Last Updated: May 15, 2006

The ACL IP Options Selective Drop feature allows Cisco routers to filter packets containing IP options or to mitigate the effects of IP options on a router or downstream routers by dropping these packets or ignoring the processing of the IP options.

Release
Modification

12.0(22)S

This feature was introduced.

12.3(4)T

This feature was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.3(4)T.

12.2(25)S

This feature was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(25)S.

12.2(27)SBC

This feature was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(27)SBC.

12.0(32)S

Support was added for the Cisco 10720 Internet router.

12.3(19)

This feature was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.3(19).


History for the ACL IP Options Selective Drop Feature

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Contents

•Restrictions for ACL IP Options Selective Drop

•Information About ACL IP Options Selective Drop

•How to Configure ACL IP Options Selective Drop

•Configuration Example for ACL IP Options Selective Drop

•Additional References

•Command Reference

Restrictions for ACL IP Options Selective Drop

•Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) (Multiprotocol Label Switching traffic engineering [MPLS TE]), Internet Group Management Protocol Version 2 (IGMPv2), and other protocols that use IP options packets may not function in drop or ignore modes.

•On the Cisco 10720 Internet router, the ip option ignore command is not supported. Only drop mode (the ip option drop command) is supported.

•The ip option ignore command (ignore mode) is supported only on the Cisco 12000 series router.

Information About ACL IP Options Selective Drop

Before you configure the ACL IP Options Selective Drop feature, you should understand the concepts in the following sections:

•Using ACL IP Options Selective Drop

•Benefits of Using ACL IP Options Selective Drop

Using ACL IP Options Selective Drop

The ACL IP Options Selective Drop feature allows a router to filter IP options packets, thereby mitigating the effects of these packets on a router and downstream routers, and perform the following actions:

•Drop all IP options packets that it receives and prevent options from going deeper into the network.

•Ignore IP options packets destined for the router and treat them as if they had no IP options.

For many users, dropping the packets is the best solution. However, in environments in which some IP options may be legitimate, reducing the load that the packets present on the routers is sufficient. Therefore, users may prefer to skip options processing on the router and forward the packet as though it were pure IP.

Benefits of Using ACL IP Options Selective Drop

•Drop mode filters packets from the network and relieves downstream routers and hosts of the load from options packets.

•Drop mode minimizes loads to the Route Processor (RP) for options that require RP processing on distributed systems. Previously, the packets were always routed to or processed by the RP CPU. Now, the ignore and drop forms prevent the packets from impacting the RP performance.

How to Configure ACL IP Options Selective Drop

This section contains the following configuration information:

•Configuring ACL IP Options Selective Drop

Configuring ACL IP Options Selective Drop

This section describes how to configure the ACL IP Options Selective Drop feature.

SUMMARY STEPS

1. enable

2. configure terminal

3. ip options {drop | ignore}

4. exit

5. show ip traffic

DETAILED STEPS

 
Command or Action
Purpose

Step 1 

enable

Example:

Router> enable

Enables privileged EXEC mode.

•Enter your password if prompted.

Step 2 

configure terminal

Example:

Router# configure terminal

Enters global configuration mode.

Step 3 

ip options {drop | ignore}

Example:

Router(config)# ip options drop

Drops or ignores IP options packets that are sent to the router.

Note On the Cisco 10720 Internet router, the ip option ignore command is not supported. Only drop mode (the ip option drop command) is supported.

Step 4 

exit

Example:

Router(config)# exit

Returns to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 5 

show ip traffic

Example:

Router# show ip traffic

(Optional) Displays statistics about IP traffic.


What to Do Next

If you are running Cisco IOS Release 12.3(4)T or a later release, you can also use the ACL Support for Filtering IP Options feature to filter packets based on whether the packet contains specific IP options. For more information, refer to ACL Support for Filtering IP Options.

Configuration Example for ACL IP Options Selective Drop

This section provides the following configuration examples:

•Configuring ACL IP Options Selective Drop: Example

•Verifying ACL IP Options Selective Drop: Example

Configuring ACL IP Options Selective Drop: Example

The following example shows how to configure the router (and downstream routers) to drop all options packets that enter the network: 

Router(config)# ip options drop


% Warning:RSVP and other protocols that use IP Options packets may not function in drop or 
ignore modes.

end

Verifying ACL IP Options Selective Drop: Example

The following sample output is displayed after 15,000 options packets are sent using the ip options drop command. Note that the "forced drop" counter increases. 

Router# show ip traffic


IP statistics:

  Rcvd:  15000 total, 0 local destination

         0 format errors, 0 checksum errors, 0 bad hop count

         0 unknown protocol, 0 not a gateway

         0 security failures, 0 bad options, 15000 with options

  Opts:  0 end, 0 nop, 0 basic security, 0 loose source route

         0 timestamp, 0 extended security, 0 record route

         0 stream ID, 0 strict source route, 0 alert, 0 cipso

         0 other

  Frags: 0 reassembled, 0 timeouts, 0 couldn't reassemble

         0 fragmented, 0 couldn't fragment

  Bcast: 0 received, 0 sent

  Mcast: 0 received, 0 sent

  Sent:  0 generated, 0 forwarded

  Drop:  0 encapsulation failed, 0 unresolved, 0 no adjacency

         0 no route, 0 unicast RPF, 15000 forced drop

Additional References

The following sections provide references related to ACL IP Options Selective Drop.

Related Documents

Related Topic
Document Title

Configuring IP access lists

"Configuring IP Services" chapter in the Cisco IOS IP Configuration Guide, Release 12.3

IP access list commands

"IP Services Commands" chapter in the Cisco IOS IP Command Reference, Volume 1 of 3: Addressing and Services, Release 12.3 T

Using access lists for filtering IP options

ACL Support for Filtering IP Options feature for Cisco IOS Release 12.3(4)T


Standards

Standards
Title

None

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MIBs

MIBs
MIBs Link

None

To locate and download MIBs for selected platforms, Cisco IOS releases, and feature sets, use Cisco MIB Locator found at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/go/mibs


RFCs

RFCs
Title

None

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Technical Assistance

Description
Link

The Cisco Technical Support & Documentation website contains thousands of pages of searchable technical content, including links to products, technologies, solutions, technical tips, and tools. Registered Cisco.com users can log in from this page to access even more content.

http://www.cisco.com/techsupport


Command Reference

This section documents one modified command only.

•ip options

ip options

To drop or ignore IP options packets that are sent to the router, use the ip options command in global configuration mode. To disable this functionality and allow all IP options packets to be sent to the router, use the no form of this command.

ip options {drop | ignore}

no ip options {drop | ignore}

Syntax Description

drop

Router drops all IP options packets that it receives.

ignore

Router ignores all options and treats the packets as though they did not have any IP options. (The options are not removed from the packet—just ignored.)


Defaults

This command is not enabled.

Command Modes

Global configuration

Command History

Release
Modification

12.0(23)S

This command was introduced.

12.3(4)T

This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.3(4)T.

12.2(25)S

This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(25)S.

12.2(27)SBC

This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.2(27)SBC.

12.3(19)

This command was integrated into Cisco IOS Release 12.3(19).


Usage Guidelines

The ip options command allows you to filter IP options packets, mitigating the effects of IP options on the router, and on downstream routers and hosts.

Drop and ignore modes are mutually exclusive; that is, if the drop mode is configured and you configure the ignore mode, the ignore mode overrides the drop mode.

Note On the Cisco 10720 Internet router, the ip option ignore command is not supported. Only drop mode (the ip option drop command) is supported.

Examples

The following example shows how to configure the router (and downstream routers) to drop all options packets that enter the network: 

Router (config)# ip options drop


% Warning:RSVP and other protocols that use IP Options packets may not function in drop or 
ignore modes.

Router (config)# exit

Any Internet Protocol (IP) addresses used in this document are not intended to be actual addresses. Any examples, command display output, and figures included in the document are shown for illustrative purposes only. Any use of actual IP addresses in illustrative content is unintentional and coincidental.

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