9 Feb
2000
9 Feb
'00
8:37 p.m.
Please remember that cable-modems are asymetric and the aggregate upstream pipe is shared.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Christopher B. Zydel Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 3:02 PM To: Richard Steenbergen Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
T1's are cheap, OC12s are not cheap.
That may be the case, but I think that Kim hit the nail on the head earlier. With the number of multi-megabit connected homes growing rapidly, there is a rapidly growing number of exploitable hosts for those perpetrating DDoS attacks to take advtange of.
/cbz