[120811] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Mon Jan 4 23:23:39 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 04:20:51 +0000
In-Reply-To: <16720fe01001042005i23f0360en6bd5740f6b90beec@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> I'm sure Arbor is really neat but I disagree that any DDoS appliance is a=
standalone solution.
I disagree with this proposition, too.
S/RTBH and/or flow-spec are great DDoS mitigation tools which don't require=
any further investment beyond the network infrastructure an operator has a=
lready purchased and deployed. These should be the first mitigation tools =
anyone deploys; in many cases, they're all that's needed.
> I don't expect an employee of the vendor themselves to attest to this tho=
ugh.
Wrong again.
;>
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