17 Sep
2005
17 Sep
'05
5:33 p.m.
... until you get an inbound ddos over that shiny gige at 1.44 Mpps. in today's world, planning for normal circumstances is woefully insufficient, you have to spec based on worst case numbers because you're almost guaranteed they will hit your network upside the head in the future.
If I have a GE link and get DDOS'ed at 1.44Mpps I'm on the wrong side of the bottleneck to do much about it, am I not ? I don't disagree on that forwarding equipment should be able to handle worst case situations, but I have never worked on a packet switching network where that is the case, especially not when counting peers and transits.