Re: Internet FUD Abound

[Vadim Antonov <avg () kotovnik com>]

Sean Donelan wrote:

> On the other hand, there have been accidents (and perhaps some
> attacks) on the logical layer which have severely disrupted the
> Internet.  

There were confirmed attacks on carrier backbone routers as
early as 1994; the most damaging was by some Internet Liberation
Front.  Fortunately, they didn't have much clue about cisco
configurations, or they could pretty much disable the entire
Internet for a significant period of time.

--vadim