Re: Using crypto auth for detecting corrupted IGP packets?

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:49 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

> On Oct 1, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Manav Bhatia wrote:
>
> > In 6 hours you will have around 8000K BFD packets. Add OSPF,
> > RSVP, BGP, LACP (for lags), dot1AG, EFM and you would really get a
> > significant number of packets to buffer.
>
>
> Which isn't a 'HUGE!' amount of packets.
>
> ;>


Yup, but when trying to figure out the root cause of some problem, having a few gigs of data would be helpful.

In the event people have not noticed, hard drives are semi-popular in routers now, so assuming you have some variable 
amount of disk space greater than 8MB for an image is feasible.

- Jared