Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?

Brett_Watson@enron.net wrote:

i'll give you that. however, caches tend to run under unix-like os's which are multi-user and multi-service machines. they can be susceptible to DoS attacks, and can be running services listening on a port which can potentially be "hacked". my only point is that you are trading a set of security issues in multicast for *different* security issues with a cache.

A Unix machine can be secured a lot better than any commercial router. For one, you can get a source code from it and see what the hell it is doing and fix discovered security holes ASAP. Second, just run SSH or Kerberos. SSH on cisco, anyone? Nyah. --vadim