Using crypto auth for detecting corrupted IGP packets?
Jared Mauch
jared at puck.nether.net
Fri Oct 1 11:26:56 UTC 2010
On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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> On Oct 1, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Manav Bhatia wrote:
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>> In 6 hours you will have around 8000K BFD packets. Add OSPF,
>> RSVP, BGP, LACP (for lags), dot1AG, EFM and you would really get a
>> significant number of packets to buffer.
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> Which isn't a 'HUGE!' amount of packets.
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> ;>
Yup, but when trying to figure out the root cause of some problem, having a few gigs of data would be helpful.
In the event people have not noticed, hard drives are semi-popular in routers now, so assuming you have some variable amount of disk space greater than 8MB for an image is feasible.
- Jared
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