[27084] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Congestion or regression testing DDoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Wed Feb 9 03:59:45 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:55:46 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On 02/08/00, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> If you think of it as "congestion" instead of a DoS, are there any tools
> we use to control congestion which could be adapted to lessen the effects
> of a DoS? Would RED(and RED variations), rate limiting, or any of the
> many QoS knobs help?
Sure, just get all the attackers to set the lowest priority
QoS on their packets....
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