Alexis Rosen writes:
Also true. As I said before, I don't know about the Ascends, but I do know that the Xylogics boxes we use have the capability but probably not the capacity. When all ports are connected at 28.8, CPU usage can hover in the high 80% range. Adding filters would probably be a bad idea.
Yes, packet filters would certainly be a Bad Idea[tm].
That's why I was talking about filtering at a router just upstream from the dial-access box.
FWIW, even with a thousand very busy modems, I'm pretty sure that even a small cisco is up to the job. They just don't generate all that much traffic.
Could be, although I'd want to see this before I bet the farm on it. I'm not sure how efficient crisco's filtering algorithm is... Alec -- +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+ |Alec Peterson - chuckie@panix.com | Panix Public Access Internet and UNIX| |Network Administrator/Architect | New York City, NY | +------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+