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color="#000000">Hello All,</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-3"
color="#000000">There seem to be rumors going around that there is
a new major Cisco vulnerability but only the major backbones are being
given fixes right now.</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000">Something about packets malformed in a certain
manner cause the router to wedge.</font></blockquote>
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color="#000000">Can anyne shed any light on or off
list?</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-3"
color="#000000">-vb</font></blockquote>
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<div>Rumor has it that more information will be coming soon, but in
the interim it's recommend to drop packets destined for the router
itself which don't originate from a known source.</div>
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<div>/John</div>
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