[63936] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Extreme BlackDiamond
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tomas Lund)
Mon Oct 13 12:14:53 2003
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 18:08:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: Tomas Lund <tlund@swip.net>
To: Andy Walden <andy@tigerteam.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0310122329130.10939@vision.tigerteam.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Andy Walden wrote:
> Actually, as far as I know, all switches and routers use the CPU to
> process ICMP. It is a control protocol and the safest option is to
> ensure the vendor has implemented some sort of CPU rate-limiting so it
> can't be overwhelmed.
Redbacks SmartEdge 800 replies to atlest ICMP ECHO in the line card ASIC.
//tlund
