[120850] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Jan 5 10:20:50 2010
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:19:19 +0000
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On Jan 5, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:
> My somewhat educated opinion on the matter is that appliance developers w=
ant to sit on the edge and see all your traffic merely to protect their own=
interests and market share.
This isn't generally a smart approach; the value of providing maximum topol=
ogical coverage and the ability to oversubscribe the system by moving inwar=
ds a bit from the edge provides clear advantages, in most circumstances.
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