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:

> 
> On Oct 1, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Manav Bhatia wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Which isn't a 'HUGE!' amount of packets.
> 
> ;>


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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