"The router being replaced started flooding other routers in the air traffic control system, Duffy said.
“We had over 1,000 connection attempts every four to five seconds, and what that did was gave us issues with our communication with airplanes, and it also caused some disruption with our radar feeds,” he said."
If that number is literally true and not just the face guy mangling it by an order of magnitude – if a mission-critical network fell over under a load of 200 connection attempts per second, which I'm pretty sure could be sustained by a plucky Nintendo DS – well, uh, yikes
@0xabad1dea I am so tired of rookie connection numbers like this in modern systems. People need to go back and realize what old network stacks did every danged day. What even simple, efficient code could do. Connection attempts, unless clogging up ports in tcp wait, should not be an issue. And that's tuneable.