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Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage)
From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:32:07 +0200
vijay gill wrote:
Not really. There existed distributed fastswitching before DCEF came along. It might still exist. CEF was developed to address the issue of route cache insertion and purging. The unneccessarily painful 60 second interval new destination stall was widely documented before CEF got widespread use. The "fast switching" approach was also particularly painful when DDOS attacks occurred.CEF was designed to support offloading the RP.
Pete
Current thread:
- RE: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Sean Crandall (Feb 25)
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- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Michael . Dillon (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) vijay gill (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Michael . Dillon (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) vijay gill (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) David Barak (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) vijay gill (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Brett Watson (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Petri Helenius (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) vijay gill (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) David Barak (Feb 26)
- Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage) Deepak Jain (Feb 26)