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Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage)


From: vijay gill <vgill () vijaygill com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:40:07 +0000


On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:32:07PM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote:

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.


Thanks for the correction. I clearly was not paying enough attention
when composing.

/vijay


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