With these safeguards in place - and with flow devices being part of the mix somewhere .. what you propose is quite reasonable. There's still the question of whether an application that receives a lot of new / untrusted traffic - a mail or web server - would benefit from having a stateful firewall in front .. Roland seems to think not. --srs On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net> wrote:
1. We have multiple nodes conducting DDoS scrubbing, one failing would not be catastrophic.
2. Indeed.
3. Sort of, such devices are downstream for extremely valid reasons I won't get into now.
4. Indeed, were equipped to handle substantially higher than 150kpps.
I'm sure Arbor is really neat but I disagree that any DDoS appliance is a standalone solution. I don't expect an employee of the vendor themselves to attest to this though.
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