1 Mar
2009
1 Mar
'09
8:17 p.m.
On Mar 2, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote:
With regards to DDoS mitigation, it's sometimes necessary to go above layers-3/-4 in the event of layer-7-targeted attacks.
In fact, it's sometimes important to have the ability to parse packet payloads and/or interact with traffic in some layer-3/layer-4 attacks, depending upon the type of traffic, source distribution, legitimate proxy intermediaries, spoofed vs. non-spoofed, and so forth. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com> // +852.9133.2844 mobile Some things are just too precious to entrust to computers. -- Seth Hanford