This talk details certain hardware features that are important for the hardening of routers and other network infrastructure. These features are hard to retrofit after the fact. Any changes at this level will involve software rewrites and may require board level changes; therefore the earlier these requirements are communicated to vendors, the better.

About the Presenter
Positions held by Vijay Gill include systems development and analysis at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Senior Network Architect/Senior Member of the Technical Staff at UUNET; and technical manager of network architecture at Metromedia Fiber Networks. Currently he is with AOL Time Warner as an architect for the ATDN backbone.