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Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Jul 13 14:12:26 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:11:45 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4C3CAA46.2000703@matthew.at>
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On Jul 14, 2010, at 1:02 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> Dangerous in places where forwarding table=20
> exceeds hardware cache limits. (See Code Red worm stories)
During the Code Red/Nimda period (2001), and on into the Slammer/Blaster/Na=
chi period (2003), all the routers I personally know of which were adversel=
y affected were software-based, didn't make use of ASICs for forwarding.
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