[27585] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: APC MasterSwitches, lock up on DOS attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Feb 26 00:25:13 2000
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:22:56 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@bbnplanet.com>
To: "John M. Brown" <jmbrown@ihighway.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> According to APC Technical support (called them today), if you
> have a APC master switch and it see more that 200-300 packets per
> sec on its interface it will lock up the unit.
My understanding of conventional wisdom is that APC products are
acknowledged to have networking stacks such that they are best placed
behind strict packet filters.
This topic feels potentially tengential to me, of course.
--jhawk
