On 02/08/00, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
If you think of it as "congestion" instead of a DoS, are there any tools we use to control congestion which could be adapted to lessen the effects of a DoS? Would RED(and RED variations), rate limiting, or any of the many QoS knobs help?
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