Re: OT - CoPP in the Enterprise

From: Marko Milivojevic <markom_at_ipexpert.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 14:10:06 +0000

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 13:39, Rick Mur <rmur_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:
> For 100% separated control- and data-planes I don't think it's necessary.

... unless the network devices themselves is under attack, or more
likely, the network is having a suicide attempt (networkcide?) as
Geert described.

In any case, CoPP is one of those things that's very nice as a
concept, but you need to be very very careful when deploying and
understand what and from whom you are protecting.

Personally, I believe the feature is much more oriented towards
service provider markets, than enterprises. SP networks are usually
devoid of firewalls and traditionally there has been very little
protection of the networks itself. In enterprise networks, there is
comfort in having firewalls just about everywhere (I've even seen them
deployed as core devices :-) ).

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