Section 8.0: Advanced Security (8 points)

8.1. Perimeter Security (3 points)

  1. The Internet uplink on R8 is under heavy load, resulting in less time allocation to handle the routing protocols, and priority to system-level processes. Upon investigation, it seems some fast packet flood is causing this condition. Your task is to lower this effect by configuring 20 percent of the CPU available to process system-level tasks.

  2. Users on VLAN_5 are complaining of slow response for TCP-based connections. At the same time, UDP-based connections are good and having no problems. As per RFC 896, configure Nagle congestion control algorithm on R8 to alleviate the small-packet problem in TCP.

8.2. Router Management Using HTTP (3 points)

  1. Configure HTTP for router ...

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