Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage)

vijay gill vgill at vijaygill.com
Thu Feb 26 19:40:07 UTC 2004


On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:32:07PM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote:

> along. It might still exist. CEF was developed to address the issue of 
> route cache insertion and purging. The unneccessarily painful 60 second 
> interval new destination stall was widely documented before CEF got 
> widespread use. The "fast switching" approach was also particularly 
> painful when DDOS attacks occurred.


Thanks for the correction. I clearly was not paying enough attention
when composing.

/vijay



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