[60113] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas Daniska)
Fri Aug 1 06:49:36 2003
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 12:46:10 +0200
From: "Tomas Daniska" <tomas@tronet.com>
To: <Michael.Dillon@radianz.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >However, I would like to see Java or Other Language to run on the=20
> routers,
> >(I know you can install and play Quake on one vendor=B4s=20
> boxes) but I mean
> >to do things really belonging to the router but so far I=20
> have yet to see=20
> a vendor
> >to take programmable boxen (outside their own development) seriously.
>=20
> >Maybe it=B4s just too hard.
>=20
> It's not hard at all technically. The hard part is that=20
> manufacturers do=20
> not want to have to provide support for such flexible boxes=20
> when they have=20
> such a hard time just dealing with the complexity of existing general=20
> purpose routers. Current routers are trying to be all things to all=20
well,
although not available for the ip routing stuff, IOS possesess a tcl =
interpreter and you can deploy virtually anything for voice purposes. =
you can program your own signalling, voice call processing, interaction =
with external systems... just bring your fantasy, and some level of tcl =
skills, too :)
and it *is* supported
--
deejay=20
