[nsp] hardware

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> 
> > You're not going to be handle anything other than small DoS attacks,
> 
> For me, SQL Slammer was the wakeup call for the need for per-port
> rate-limiting of customers.  All it took was one infected customer to
> render an entire 2924xl and the FE port on the router it connected to

Out of interest, why cant or dont Cisco switches (switch so 2900, 3500 etc) 
allow rate limiting .. it seems to be a router only function?

Steve