On Jan 3, 2014, at 12:32 AM, Eugeniu Patrascu <eu...@imacandi.net> wrote:
> With modern machines (from a few years back) you can track a lot of > connections effortlessly. I think you don't understand the scale of even small DDoS attacks in terms of state-tracking. Stateful devices put in front of servers which are then DDoSed go down, taking down everything behind those stateful devices. I've seen 3mb/sec of spoofed SYN-flood take down a 20gb/sec stateful firewall; I've seen 10kpps of HOIC take down a 10gb/sec load-balancer. This isn't theoretical or speculative. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Luck is the residue of opportunity and design. -- John Milton _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
