On Nov 18, 2009, at 2:58 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> Not really, forwarding 200 to 300 Mbps of attack traffic (or more) is
> not a problem anymore.

My experience differs, and has for quite some time.  It's really the pps and 
flows which are the killer.

> That's like saying that the day of links with less than 10 Gbps of capacity 
> are over, from an availability perspective.

Straw-man, you know better than that, heh.

> And if your router fails to forward an outbound DoS attack, that's
> actually a good thing, isn't it?

Actually, the preferred outcome is that you can block it on the router with 
S/RTBH or an ACL or whatever, and the router stays up forwarding the non-attack 
traffic.

;>

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