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Re: Vyatta as a BRAS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Jul 13 13:59:09 2010

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:57:26 +0000
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On Jul 14, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Scott Weeks wrote:

> I'm guessing "a few kpps of packets" is tounge-in-cheek?  Entry level scr=
ipt kiddies can get to a few hundred kpps easily.


That's what I meant - even a very small botnet can easily overwhelm softwar=
e-based edge routers.

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