[107543] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP38 dismissal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Wall)
Fri Sep 5 11:46:35 2008
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:46:29 -0400
From: "Paul Wall" <pauldotwall@gmail.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20080904181256.GA20349@force10networks.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Greg Hankins <ghankins@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Hey Paul, would you be able to demonstrate this problem? I'd like to see
> it so that we can investigate and fix it.
>
> You are correct that the first generation of E-Series hardware (EtherScale)
> had little control plane protection.
>
> The current E-Series hardware (TeraScale) has a completely different
> architecture that rate limits, queues and filters all packets destined to
> the control plane.
In my current job, I don't have access to this kind of iron. The
afforementioned Linksys solution provides more than enough capacity.
If you could provide me login/enable access to a current E-series box
with no firewalls sitting in front, I can most likely replicate.
(Off-list, in the interest of keeping things on-topic, with a
follow-up summary sent on-...)
Drive Slow,
Paul Wall
