On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Benedikt Stockebrand <[email protected]> wrote: >> Shrug. People have them (in quantity) because they're cost effective >> and did a mix of stuff that no other box did, that it turns out a lot >> of people wanted, and in most cases tolerably well. > > the problem here is that with mobile devices getting increasingly > popular, the design of the supervisor engine is outdated. So I agree > with James that "we have to cope with", where "we" is "the entire > industry, including the router vendors". > > In my opintion the problem here is not so much Apple, but Cisco. While > I understand that CAM/TCAM is painfully expensive in hardware, in the > long run increasing its size is the way to go. On the Cisco side, the > quick workaround may be a reliable expiration mechanism.
Seconded. Deleting the oldest STALE entries would do the trick and might provide some protection from DoS. -- SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry
