Comment Re:Ending DDOSes is easy (Score 1) 120
They could probably even cause current routers to start this behavior with a microcode
Firmware patches are useless because modern routers don't have time to process every packet through its CPU. High end routers do most things on the line card, which doesn't involve the router's CPU.
This is why traceroute no longer produces sensible results. ICMP has to be processed using the router's CPU and therefore is given second priority, which is one reason why the RTTs don't always increase through successive hops.
