Re: DDOS - How much is "too much"?

["Jeffrey Lyon" <jeffrey.lyon () blacklotus net>]

DDoS protection packages are generally sold with Mbps, PPS, and often
TCP-SYN / UDP session limits.

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> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H <ml () t-b-o-h net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >        I have a client who prior to me settled into a non-carrier-neutral
> > facility. They were approached this week for "DoS/DDoS protection" which
> > they could buy in X Mb/s, 2xX Mb/s or 4xX Mb/s scrubbing solutions.
> >
> >        Maybe I've been out of the running my larger Managed Server
> > Hosting Company too long, but wasn't the "non-elegant" solutions
> > something ISPs just "did"? Was it only DoS, and when it comes to
> > DDoS they tell you its just too much to handle. And blocking how many
> > netblocks does an ISP consider "too many" before it tells the client
> > there is only so much it can do for them? Do people tell/give clients
> > their own solutions? (Like Zebra boxes that'll inject BGP into their
> > site)
> >
> >        They wanted me to come up with 3 reasons FOR the service,
> > 3 against, and what I felt was a fair market value for this. I just need
> > to know if people still did that type of stuff for each other or if
> > everything costs nowadays....
> >
> >                Thanks, Tuc/TBOH



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