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Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned

  • From: Chris Cappuccio
  • Date: Wed Feb 09 15:18:11 2000

Funny.  On an as5300 with compression turned on, and 96 56K users dialed up
and active, I've never seen the CPU load go above 15%

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:

 | 
 | On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Daniel Senie wrote:
 | > Dialup pools should also be protected. No sense in permitting problems
 | > to originate on a dialup modem or ISDN line. I know the Lucent/Ascend
 | > MAX product accepts an attribute Ascend-Source-IP-Check, which can be
 | > applied as a part of the RADIUS authentication. Have the large dialup
 | > wholesalers implemented this? 
 | 
 | When I asked a couple dialup wholesalers this question point blank last
 | year, the answer was no - because their routers/term servers didn't have
 | enough CPU to do filtering.
 | 
 | -Dan
 | 
 | 
 | 

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