[nsp] [article]: Filters on routers: The price of performance

Deepak Jain deepak at ai.net
Thu Jul 17 18:04:04 EDT 2003


> but what i'm also wondering about is that according to the
> article, vendors were those actually configuring the boxes. so if
> this is true, cisco has to eat its own share of the scandal -
> they definitely should thank the boyscout shipped with the router :)
>

In the article, Cisco said they wouldn't participate, and didn't think they
should be included in the testing. So the authors bought the router,
installed the memory upgrade and went. Cisco had nothing to do with it, and
the box most likely was in its default (non-optimized) configuration.

DJ



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