[outages] EDGE: Anyone seeing 100% CPU on Fortigate edge routers?

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Jan 15 15:38:47 EST 2015


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roland Dobbins via Outages" <outages at outages.org>

> On 15 Jan 2015, at 23:44, Jay Ashworth via Outages wrote:
> 
> > Since their primary and hotspare boxes behave identically, end
> > neither
> > ever did before, I infer a pattern-file pooch-screwing at Fortigate,
> > and
> > am looking for corroborating reports.
> 
> Is it possible they're being DDoSed? Stateful devices don't generally
> react well to DDoS attacks:

If they did it was a *very* targeted attack, because Road Runner's 
support guy said they didn't see any appreciable amount of inbound traffic
at that time.

Cheers,
-- jra
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