[c-nsp] front-end box to protect wimpy Cisco router from DoS?

[Johnson, Richard (NY Int)]

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From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net <cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net>
To: Ed Ravin <eravin at panix.com>; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
CC: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Fri May 11 03:04:25 2007
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] front-end box to protect wimpy Cisco router from DoS?

Ed Ravin:

> I have an elderly 7200 NPE-225 box on my network that has no 
> problem handling normal traffic, but every now and then 
> someone sends a DoS attack in its general direction and the 
> poor thing is unable to do anything useful

What type of interface(s) connect the 7200 upstream and what traffic
rates & packet types are killing the box?

~Brad

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