5 Sep
2007
5 Sep
'07
1:52 p.m.
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Fred Baker wrote:
capacity. My ISP in front of my home does that; they configure my cable modem to shape my traffic up and down to not exceed certain rates, and lo and
Well, in case you're being DDoS:ed at 1 gigabit/s, you'll use more resources in the backbone than most, by some definition of "you". So my take is that this is impossible to solve in the core because routers can't keep track of individual conversations and act on them, doing so would increase cost and complexity enormously. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se