hi nanog, back in april, Mohamed was reviewing the shortlist of DDoS appliances, would you mind posting a summary of your findings # partial list of DDoS appliances DDoS-Mitigator.net/Competitors ----- ? does anybody know which DDoS appliances uses IPtables to do its mitigation ?? iptables is good because it supports tarpit which can be used to counter attack the incoming TCP-based DDoS attackers ? Does any colo/datacenter ( in silicon valley or Las Vegas ) allow the customers to put a firewall at the ISP end of the pipe to prevent these ICMP/UDP floods from going down the pipe to the customer thanx alvin DDoS-Simulator.net === Simulate DDoS attacks DDoS-Mitigator.net === Defend against incoming DDoS attacks