Loadsa ICMP...

That's my point. The answer is to get rid of the concept of an
RSP completely. A box with a central CPU is never going to scale as well
as a distributed processor design no matter how many MHz you throw at it.

There ARE vendors that have such designs (and have had such designs for about
the past 5 years or so..)

While admittedly I (strongly) dislike Cisco, it is in the best interest of the
entire Internet to see them build a better box. With 80% of the routers
in the Internet being Cisco, these types of DoS attacks make me a bit
nervous about our future when the infrastructure is built on what
is IMHO a non-scalable architecture.

-Jon

jcgreen@netins.net (Jon Green) writes:

That's my point. The answer is to get rid of the concept of an
RSP completely. A box with a central CPU is never going to scale as well
as a distributed processor design no matter how many MHz you throw at it.

Seems like the real answer is to get rid of the processor. Why are we
still using generic hardware to do packet forwarding, anyways?

Tony