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Re: Patching for Cisco vulnerability

  • From: Petri Helenius
  • Date: Fri Jul 18 16:06:40 2003 
>
> if  (ifc->in_bps > ifc->phy_speed || ifc->out_bps > ifc->phy_speed)
> {
> crash_router();
> }
>
> If they added this code, they'd find these bugs in their
> labs instead of in our networks.
>
I remember seeing an article claiming that Cisco�s automated regression
testing does "more than 250000" tests before they release a piece of code.

However, questions about the nature of these tests and if any tests sent
more traffic than a random scripted ping went unanswered.

Pete