[144481] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: vyatta for bgp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Sep 12 15:36:50 2011
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:35:14 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: "Michael K. Smith - Adhost" <mksmith@adhost.com>
In-Reply-To: <D8CD26287252844898B508C40824D8F451C123@AD-EXH02.adhost.lan>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/09/2011 20:08, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:
> How do you come to this conclusion? I think a software-based router for
> enterprise level (let's say on the 1G per provider level) can handle a
> fair amount of zorching.
I presume by "a fair amount", I presume you mean "barely any"?
At large packet sizes, an "enterprise level" router will just about handle
a 1G DoS attack. Thing is, bandwidth DoS / DDoS is sufficiently easy to
pull off on a large scale that a 1G DoS is pretty easy.
Incidentally, most service providers use "enterprise level" as a by-word
for mediocre quality kit, lacking in both stability and useful features.
Nick
