21 Aug
2000
21 Aug
'00
8:44 a.m.
It's looking like the only way to improve is to buy bigger connections; but in light of the Yahoo attack (800Mbps was the last word I guess?) how big is big enough? How many OC48 connections can _your_ data center afford?
In dealing with DDoS attacks, it is good do remember that altough channel capacity is a number of bits per second, router capacity is packets per second and server performance is requests per second. Very powerful DDoS streams containing thousands of small packets per second from random spoofed sources can put many routers, firewalls and servers down with no more than a DS3 of bandwidth. Rubens Kuhl Jr.