Re: Route cache performance under stress

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:

quoted

   From: Jamal Hadi [off-list ref]
   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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