[27610] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [long] Re: DDoS: CAR vs TCP-Intercept vs NetFlow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Feb 28 22:35:36 2000
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:33:42 -0500
To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rkuhljr@uol.com.br>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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At 12:06 AM 02/29/2000 -0300, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:
>Thanks for the long answer, but this question was actually on how the router
>performance impact of CAR or TCP-Intercept changes between using CEF
>switching (ip route-cache cef, default) and CEF-Flow switching (ip
>route-cache cef + ip-route cache flow). Although NetFlow impacts router
>performance a little, running CEF-Flow makes large access-list processing
>faster than just running CEF; I think some other features (IPSec ?) also
>have performance gains. I was wondering whether CAR and/or TCP-Intercept
>would have better performance with CEF-Flow.
Again, forget about flow-switching in any context except for
tracing back attackers.
If you want the functionality to lower the threshold of DoS pain,
CEF is your baby.
This is an operational forum, yes? Where is the input from the
(current) operators?
- paul
ps. And they can both be used in conjunction with one another to
reach an end goal...