On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:23:54PM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote: > >Against a hostile > >system that is attacking you, it is completely worthless. > > Is anything - without some fairly "high end" gear ?
The attack is usually against the fact that your DSL line has a meagre ~6Mbit downstream capacity. The same filter applied inside your ISPs network would work - very few people have the capacity to DoS an entire ISP (the operators of the large botnets are about the only ones). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
