[OCCAID] FW: US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA05-026A -- Multiple Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS

[Scott J. Clifford]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:40:19PM -0500, James wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:33:51PM -0500, Scott J. Clifford wrote:
> > Cisco isn't challenging. You haven't tried Force10?
> > 
> > Scott.
> 
> hahahah... As far as I am concerned, F10 is The Failure of Layer3.

"The Failure of Layer3" -- rotfl. What an unfortunate analogy for a vendor to
get that generalization. ;-)

Scott.

> 
> o No receive ACL / cp-policer / "loopback filtering"
> o No MPLS
> o Broken transit ACLs
> o No IPv6
> o Control plane management establishes connection then returns access-denied
>   when 'attacker' is filtered. (What happened to receive ACL?)
> o Price is very similar to fully loaded Cat6509 when its featureset
>   doesn't even come close to half of Cisco's offering.
> o ROUTE-MAP CHALLENGED
> o etc etc
> 
> Sorry but SUP720-3BXL buries it :)
> 
> -J
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