> On 3 Jul 1998, Tom wrote:
>
> > Depends, were you the target, or where you the intermediary? You will
> > need to trace the traffic to find out. You should definitely turn off
> > directed broadcasts on your 3640.
>
> Nah. No need to trace traffic. Do a 'show inter' on the interface in
> question. If there's a ton of traffic outbound, you're the intermediary.
> If there's a ton of traffic inbound, you're the target.
Yes, but it could just be a typical ping flood, or some some other kind
of flood (UDP).
> > A 3640 is rated to handle 50 kpps. But you need to make sure the router
> > doesn't bury itself (over buffering) when interfaces get maxed.
>
> 50 kpps? 50,000 pps? What type of interfaces do you have on this 3640,
> OC12? That's *ALOT* of packets per second.
Yes, it is but you don't need OC12 to get that packet rate. Besides the
3640 routing engine's limits, not the interface limits.
> Chad Scott
> Beta Engineer
> Lucent Technologies
>
>
>
Tom
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