Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Jul 14, 2010, at 1:02 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

> Dangerous in places where forwarding table 
> exceeds hardware cache limits. (See Code Red worm stories)


During the Code Red/Nimda period (2001), and on into the Slammer/Blaster/Nachi period (2003), all the routers I 
personally know of which were adversely affected were software-based, didn't make use of ASICs for forwarding.

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