13 Jul
2010
13 Jul
'10
6:11 p.m.
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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken