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Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?


From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:27:54 +0200

* Bryan Fields:

Yes, but I was showing what a great DDOS attack method it would be
too ;)

The beauty of flow-based forwarding (with or without NAT) is that
several types of denial-of-service attacks tend to hurt close to the
packet sources, and not just close to the victim.  As far as the whole
system is concerned, this is a very, very good thing.


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