[HECnet] Connections to area 29 - issues

Hi, Apologies for some of the intermittent connection problems to/from area29. I was being hit with a very small part of some DDOS reflection traffic targeted at some cloud providers. This wasn't causing the actual issues however. In making a series of incremental, and in some cases automated changes to firewall rules and threshold settings, it would appear that the router needs a reboot following any major changes. Apparently, there's a bit of garbage created when rules are moved around, changed and deleted which degrades throughput until a reboot is performed. I suppose you could call it a bug in their software. Just FYI Keith