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Re: Vyatta as a BRAS
From: Dan White <dwhite () olp net>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:31:29 -0500
On 14/07/10 02:18 +0000, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
On Jul 14, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Tony Li wrote:The whole point about being DoS resistant is one of horsepower. To do DoS protection correctly, you need to be able to do packet examination at line rate.Right. And to date, such routers make use of ASICs - i.e.,'hardware-based' routers, in the vernacular.Routers which use only centralized, general-purpose processors can't handle even a fraction of 'line-rate' without tanking, as innumerable real-world examples of said behavior over the years have repeatedly and conclusively demonstrated.
I'm not really all that opinionated on the subject, other than to say that the definition of a router, and what qualifies as a sufficient router for any given administrator's needs, greatly varies. However, to state something like
as innumerable real-world examples of said behavior over the years have repeatedly and conclusively demonstrated.
has the appearance of you struggling to hold on to an idea that may have been more true in the past, and less true today, as is evident based on the input from other list participants. -- Dan White
Current thread:
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS, (continued)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Lamar Owen (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Christian Chapman (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Lamar Owen (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dobbins, Roland (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Curtis Maurand (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Nick Hilliard (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Tony Li (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dobbins, Roland (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dan White (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dobbins, Roland (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dobbins, Roland (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Lamar Owen (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS sthaug (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Dobbins, Roland (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Per Carlson (Jul 14)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Lamar Owen (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Curtis Maurand (Jul 13)
- Re: Vyatta as a BRAS Joe Greco (Jul 13)