How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s network

Re:How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s... by jacquesm on Friday June 30, 2017 @02:21PM (#14672686)

I love bugs like these. Make it crash is often the hardest part of solving any bug and without this you'd have never known. There is one nasty bit to this story though: the NSOC was running outdated firmware on their Cisco's and wouldn't have known about it if an outside party had not alerted them to this fact. That's pretty sloppy on their end.

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Re:How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s... by askldjd on Friday June 30, 2017 @02:36PM (#14672802)

Thanks. I think the fact Cisco routers fail to route TCP packets bothers me even more.

/you had one job

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Re:How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s... by fartbagxp on Friday June 30, 2017 @02:39PM (#14672818)

But it did route those TCP packets over.

For exactly 5 minutes.

It just means you need to route everything faster, and then kill your connection, and restart it. :)

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