[79279] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco to merge with Nabisco
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Fri Apr 1 15:15:32 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:14:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: Bill Nash <billn@billn.net>
Cc: "Church, Chuck" <cchurch@netcogov.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504011008450.30763@bacchus.billn.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Bill Nash wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Church, Chuck wrote:
> >
> > Incorrectly chosen switching path can now result in lost packets AND
> > indigestion.
>
> Is this mitigated by activating Nabisco Express Forwarding?
Yes, but this is only available with the Gastric Bypass feature set that
requires a rather bloated image. Traffic shaping is required to avoid
denial of service attacks as the input buffers are easily overloaded when
implementing this fix.
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