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Re: whatever happened to RED? (was: Improving Robustness...)
From: Simon Leinen <simon () limmat switch ch>
Date: 13 Jul 2001 16:12:17 +0200
"was" == William Allen Simpson <wsimpson () greendragon com> writes:Didn't we have a solution to this problem? And the UDP flood from Real? And a host of other problems with saturated links?
My operational issue is: what is the status of RED? Being small and only having cisco and *nix routers, I'd expect it was widely deployed.
RED alone doesn't help much against flooding attacks. You'd need something like "RED with penalty box" or (flow-based) WFQ, and those are either in research status or have other fundamental problems. Don't get me wrong, RED is extremely cool - buy only routers that support this at line rate, and configure it on any interface where you expect even a slight chance of congestion. -- Simon.
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- whatever happened to RED? (was: Improving Robustness...) William Allen Simpson (Jul 13)
- Re: whatever happened to RED? (was: Improving Robustness...) John Kristoff (Jul 13)
- Re: whatever happened to RED? (was: Improving Robustness...) Simon Leinen (Jul 13)