Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage)

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