Alan Brown wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Darren Reed wrote: > > > You know if anyone was of a mind to find someone at fault over this, > > I'd start pointing the finger at ISP's who haven't been doing this > > due to "performance reasons". > > To be fair, if you do this on most terminal servers (eg, Cisco 5300, Max > 4000), they will collapse under the load. I maintain a number of sites running the ACC/Ericsson Tigris access servers, which have similar processing power to the 5300. These units have ingress filtering enabled on dialup ports by default, requiring a trivial amount of CPU utilization to do so. Ingress filtering is really just another routing decision, something that these kinds of boxes are made to do all day, every day. John Edwards
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