Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

Fri Sep 6 18:38:46 UTC 2002

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, batz wrote:

> To a network technician, it doesn't matter whether it's terrorists or cow
> tipping teenagers causing outages, as the depth of analysis required to
> fix the problem doesn't involve speculating about the identities and
> motives of the perpetrators.

It does matter. A cow might fall over and break a line card, but a savvy
attacker could give you a linecard that kills chassis such that they make
linecards that kill chassis..  When every piece of gear you have in a
reagon is dead due to poor failure containment, you'll be wishing you had
only suffered a chance failure.