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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Loadsa ICMP...
On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:40:05 -0500, [email protected] writes: > > realize here that doubling (or tripling, or quadrupling) the >CPU power of the cisco will not help. Upgrading from an rsp2 to an >rsp4 would buy you about 3 times 3.5Kpps, say around 10Kpps, process >switched. That's still hardly enough to save you when you're being >smurfed. That's my point. The answer is to get rid of the concept of an RSP completely. A box with a central CPU is never going to scale as well as a distributed processor design no matter how many MHz you throw at it. There ARE vendors that have such designs (and have had such designs for about the past 5 years or so..) While admittedly I (strongly) dislike Cisco, it is in the best interest of the entire Internet to see them build a better box. With 80% of the routers in the Internet being Cisco, these types of DoS attacks make me a bit nervous about our future when the infrastructure is built on what is IMHO a non-scalable architecture. -Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Jon Green * "Life's a dance * * [email protected] * you learn as you go" * * Finger for Geek Code/PGP * * * #include "std_disclaimer.h" * http://www.netins.net/showcase/jcgreen * -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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