149: Mini-Stories: Vol 3

2838.232 - 2856.901 Jack Recider

If he's sending massive amounts of traffic, it could easily overwhelm that next hop. Just too many packets at once going through that and opening too many sessions, it can fill up the session table. Memory or CPU on the device could just be maxed out and it just might not accept any more packets. Essentially doing a denial of service on that next hop if it was a switch or a router.