Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:41:09 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
[...]
BTW, I would suggest that for a variety of applications, hardware
assisted filtering boxes that simply take in IP one end and put out
processed IP on the other end would be of use -- not just for this,
but also for helping in doing packet traces through high traffic
areas, for implementing firewalls, and for all sorts of other
things. Vendors, are you listening?
[...]
Network Systems has a box which does this for IP over ATM packets. I
believe that it runs at full OC-3c (155 Mbps) speed. It also potentially
does a bunch of other stuff to the IP packets.
It might make an interesting NANOG presentation, if it hasn't been done
already.
-tjs