[c-nsp] Something I was thinking about whilst idle the other day.

[Eric Van Tol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Drew Weaver
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:20 PM
> To: 'cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net'
> Subject: [c-nsp] Something I was thinking about whilst idle the other day.
>
>                 What are some persistent things about Cisco products that no
> matter how high into the product line you travel you cannot get away from? I
> was sitting around the other day thinking about how odd it is that in 2008
> the BGP scanner still causes the CPU utilization to jump ridiculously high
> (on pretty much all routers I've seen..from 7200 to 128xx), and all of the
> various limitations of the route table sizes in various Cisco products. I
> realize these issues are either harmless or explainable ("just the way it
> is") I just think it is a strange/interesting thing to note that years later
> the same issues are still present in technology no matter how far up you go
> in the line.
>
>                 Not sure what prompt these things in my head :D
>
> -Drew
>

Here's one that I only see on Cisco routers:

http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/IP/traceroutedoc.php#_caveats

The last hop in traceroute results usually drops the second probe.

-evt