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RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks
From: "Dan Lockwood" <dlockwood () shastalink k12 ca us>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 13:24:11 -0800
Would anyone be willing to post an operational example of CAR for ICMP. I would like to see what others are doing to combat the problem. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Jared Mauch [mailto:jared () puck Nether net] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 13:12 To: Jeff Shultz Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:03:52PM -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote:
On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>said:Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receivedatausing ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are considered harmful?Smurf.Okay. What will this do to my user's ping and traceroute times, if anything? I've got users who tend to panic if their latency hits250msbetween here and the moon (slight exaggeration, but only slight). I just love it when I've got people blaming me because the 20th hopona traceroute starts returning * * * instead of times.that's icmp ttl expired messages.I know that, and I try to explain it to my customers... but it doesn't
answer the first part of the question - what will throttling ICMP do to ping and traceroute times? My gut reaction is that it will a. slow them
ICMP? Or only icmp echo and icmp echo-reply messages? In a well behaved router, nothing. Obviously if you have a 7500 or older GSR linecards that are incapable of doing this due to design problems from day one in pps rates and feature path, there may be a hit. I'm not saying rate-limit anything other than echo+reply.
down and/or b. discard a lot of them making the circuit look unreliable to ping. But I don't know enough about the underlying technology to be sure of that.
Once again, i'd like to see (other than a performance checking customer) generate more than 2Mb/s of icmp.echo and icmp.echo-reply packets that are legit and not part of a DoS. This is quite rare. Do your own stats and test your hardware. - jared -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from jared () puck nether net clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
Current thread:
- Re: ICMP filtering, was Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks, (continued)
- Re: ICMP filtering, was Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Rob Thomas (Oct 30)
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- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jared Mauch (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Brett Frankenberger (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Peter E. Fry (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jared Mauch (Oct 29)
- RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks fingers (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks bob (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jared Mauch (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Jared Mauch (Oct 29)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 30)
- Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Crist J. Clark (Oct 31)
- Provider feedback Derek Samford (Oct 31)