[j-nsp] what’s the story behind MPC5E

[Adam Vitkovsky]

> From: Saku Ytti [mailto:saku at ytti.fi]
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 2:36 PM
>
> On 21 May 2016 at 16:15, Adam Vitkovsky <Adam.Vitkovsky at gamma.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >> I'm very very dubious if there is business case to plan to congest XL.
> >> I consider lookup congestion fault which needs to be fixed.
> >>
> > Well during DDoS attack the XL will get congested so you better be
> prepared for that.
>
> I disagree. It will only get congested if you have 0 background or you have
> background consisting of only small packets or atypical lookup cost. You
> should design/populate ports so that this is non-issue.
> If you know you have atypical lookup cost or only small packets, then you
> should leave some ports unconnected, so that you can guarantee there is
> margin.
>
> In vast majority of networks there is IMIX background of >500B average size,
> then even with modest background you have nothing to worry about, you
> can't fit more work on the wire than the LX can handle.
>
Aww now I see where the confusion is coming from.
I wasn't talking about the traffic entering the PFE via WAN input, but I meant traffic coming in via Fabric input, should have mention that explicitly.

Unless you have cone filters at all AS entry points you can't really control or capacity manage how much traffic is going to be sent down to any port hosting publically accessible services or customers during a DDoS attack.
In this direction (from fabric) it is very easy for a PFE to get oversubscribed and it doesn't even need to be doing anything fancy and can have just one active port on it, just the 240Gbps from fabric can max it out.



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