Re: Route cache performance under stress

From: Pekka Savola (pekkas@netcore.fi)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 00:01:32 EST


On Mon, 19 May 2003, Jamal Hadi wrote:
> I dont think the hashes are similar - its the effect into the
> slow path. I was told by someone who tested this on a priicey CISCO
> that they simply die unless capable of a feature called CEF.

Yes, but pretty much nobody is using Cisco without CEF, except in the last
mile, low-end devices.

> On Mon, 19 May 2003, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > From: Jamal Hadi <hadi@shell.cyberus.ca>
> > Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 21:23:08 -0400 (EDT)
> >
> > Also used to attack CISCOs by them kiddies btw. We stand much better
> > than any CISCO doing caching.
> >
> > I have to assume that the source address selection operates
> > differently for attacking cisco equiptment, our hashes being
> > identical would really be unbelievable :-)
> >
> >
> >
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