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Great question. I definitely want to take a stab at this one.
First all of if you are worried about redundancy you could get a back
up line and run bgp. That might be a little too complex for this
scenario so my other answers follow the posters
Kevin Brown wrote:
First let me say this: never let your ISP tell you there is *nothing* they
can do. It's a cop-out for one of two reasons: either they are completely
unwilling to help because they are afraid that by accepting even a margin of
responsibility it will open them up to higher
I have been the target of DoS attacks in the past. My ISP said they could
not filter some of these, but eventually they did (Incompetance i think).
If a particular IP address is being targetted, make your ISP drop all
packets with that destination IP address. Sure, that particular site may
First let me say this: never let your ISP tell you there is *nothing* they
can do. It's a cop-out for one of two reasons: either they are completely
unwilling to help because they are afraid that by accepting even a margin of
responsibility it will open them up to higher expectations, OR they
