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["Julian Y. Koh" <>]

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At 14:43 -0700 6/11/2008, Leonard Giuliano wrote:
>Routers have no problems with high SAP data rates.  They will happily
>forward them with no problems.  The problem happens when you tell the
>routers to listen to these SAP announcements.

Yeah, none of our routers have problems with the SAP storms.  The problems
we see are that departmental hosts behind firewalls are listening for SAPs,
and the firewalls fall over trying to filter/drop/log all the traffic.


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Julian Y. Koh                         
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