<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Guilty as charged.</div><div><br></div><div>(What's the surest way to crash a router? Turn it on.)</div><div><br>On 11 Oct 2013, at 22:49, Ben Buxton <<a href="mailto:bb.ausnog@bb.cactii.net">bb.ausnog@bb.cactii.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Peter Childs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pchilds@staff.iinet.net.au" target="_blank">pchilds@staff.iinet.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>I assume the correct answer is 'Cisco or Juniper?'</div>
<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Close. But then an interviewer would follow up with 'whats the difference?'. Then you would explain the differences in terms of what the counters actually count - layer 3 vs layer 2. Dont forget to account for preamble, inter packet gap, .1q, etc as they all eat into the line rate.</div>
<div>If you're a real smart-arse, you would conclude that a 96 bit counter would never overflow as the vendor who chose that size probably has buggy software that would crash well before then...<br></div><div><br></div>
<div>BB</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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