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Re: Pakistan government orders ISP service level agreement


From: Vijay Gill <vgill () vijaygill com>
Date: 05 May 2003 21:30:35 +0000


"Joseph T. Klein" <jtk () titania net> writes:

Another example of how lack of splay allows DDOS to devastate a network.

Give it up on the splay argument please. Maybe in poorly engineered
networks you need a high splay factor (high being user defined).

The point is all moot, considering how easy it is to make a router 
go explody today.  High splay or not, it isn't going to do jack
when your boxes crash.

/vijay





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