[nsp] MD5 causes biggern problem than it fixes?

Wed Apr 21 16:38:21 EDT 2004

EH> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:26:34 -0500
EH> From: Edward Henigin

EH> IIRC, my Ciscos do NOT do line-rate ACLs...

Do they do line-rate MD5 checksums?  Consider a flood of MD5-
checksummed SYN+!ACK packets...

Eddy
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