Vyatta as a BRAS

Wed Jul 14 23:39:26 UTC 2010

On 7/13/10 11:11 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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> On Jul 14, 2010, at 1:02 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
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>> Dangerous in places where forwarding table exceeds hardware cache
>> limits. (See Code Red worm stories)
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> During the Code Red/Nimda period (2001), and on into the
> Slammer/Blaster/Nachi period (2003), all the routers I personally
> know of which were adversely affected were software-based, didn't
> make use of ASICs for forwarding.

Having msdp turned on was a great way to get nuked by slammer regardless 
of your choice of forwarding technology.

Which reminds me control plane protection is about more than just acls 
and rate limiting.

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