Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

[jim deleskie <deleskie () gmail com>]

What Roland said, I've seen people do this, no rules in place, still
was able to kill the box (firewall) with a single CPU server.

-jim

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins () arbor net> wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2010, at 4:25 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
>
> > Use a robust firewall such as a Netscreen in front of your mitigation
> > tool.
>
> Absolutely not - the firewall will fall over due to state-table exhaustion before the mitigation system will.  
> Firewalls (which have no place in front of servers in the first place), load-balancers, and any other stateful 
> devices should be southbound of the mitigation system.
>
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