Re: A modest proposal

[Avi Freedman <freedman () netaxs com>]

> That's what bothers me most - I have a suspicion that Alexis didn't even
> have to go out of his own domain to look for perpetrators. Then again, I
> may be wrong.
>
> Dima
>
> Arthur Hyun writes:
> > i think that Alexis said that the 2nd attack involved something like
> > 7 panix machines--just how much bandwidth is needed to support a
> > 2Kpps attack on 7 machines?
> >
> >                                             -arthur

Nope, the packets were definitely coming in from the outside (and not
out his MCI t1 and in his Sprint t1), but *nothing* like 2kpps.

We later got a good fraction of that with a deliberate test attack,
though.

2kpps is only 80kbytes/sec, though...  Still not straining a t1.

Avi

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