It's completely reasonable when the world at large is only secondary to the local, on-net operations. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roland Dobbins" <rdobbins@arbor.net> To: "nanog list" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2015 10:50:05 AM Subject: Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour On 2 Aug 2015, at 22:44, Dave Pooser wrote:
I wonder if that would be a reason for the relatively anemic 1Gb Internet
pipe-- making sure that a DDoS couldn't push enough packets through to inconvenience the LAN party.
While increasing bandwidth is not a viable DDoS defense tactic, decreasing it isn't one, either. ----------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>