Re: Cisco IOS Shellcode Presentation

[Jochen Kaiser <Jochen.Kaiser () rrze uni-erlangen de>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:10:12PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:33:19 CDT, Randall Perry said:
>
> > Even for producing less than 500 units there are vendors ready to jump at the
> > chance to replace FPGA setups (because we are talking about complex 2k+ gate count).
>
> More like 2M+ gate count.  Remember, you have to do BGP4 in silicon. ;)

maybe I am wrong, but with high end switchrouter I thought that routing 
protocols are handled by IOS by the cpu - after calculated, the topology 
is programmed in e.g. TCAM memory.

imho no fpgas here.
please correct me.

greets
jk

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