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Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...
From: "Alex.Bligh" <amb () xara net>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:29:48 +0000
In fact, responding to pings does not directly affect the speed of the hardware forwarding engine. However, it does increase buffer utilization in the hardware. It also deters routing protocol processing from happening, as it's consuming CPU.
The fact remains that a ping packet stream a Linux 386SX would barely notice maxes out a 7010 (far more powerful CPU) that otherwise runs at 30% with no difficulty whatsoever and causes all sorts of problems (like it looses all its BGP sessions). Rather and obvious DoS attack, and one which even MS were red faced enough to fix in their NT s/w pretty sharpish. Alex Bligh Xara Networks - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Tim Salo (Dec 16)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Dima Volodin (Dec 16)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... maillists (Dec 16)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Tim Salo (Dec 16)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Tim Salo (Dec 16)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Vadim Antonov (Dec 16)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Craig Nordin (Dec 16)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Chris Caputo (Dec 17)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... David Miller (Dec 19)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Tony Li (Dec 19)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Alex.Bligh (Dec 19)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Tony Li (Dec 19)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Jonathan M. Bresler (Dec 19)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Alex.Bligh (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Jim Van Baalen (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Nathan Stratton (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Paul A Vixie (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Jim Van Baalen (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Craig Nordin (Dec 16)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Tony Li (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Alex.Bligh (Dec 20)
- Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter... Avi Freedman (Dec 20)