[4538] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A modest proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Sep 17 22:47:54 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: arthur@support.psi.com (Arthur Hyun)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:38:36 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609180115.VAA23914@support.psi.com> from "Arthur Hyun" at Sep 17, 96 09:15:47 pm
> perhaps a change in the packet density during the attack might suggest
> that an intermediate circuit is becoming congested. if this is the
> case, then ISPs may be able to look at known high-use corrodors instead
> of groping around blindly. or, conversely, if there is a steady stream
> at 2Kpps, that might be enough to allow a smaller provider to discount
> part of the topology that is not able to support that kind of traffic.
>
> i think that Alexis said that the 2nd attack involved something like
> 7 panix machines--just how much bandwidth is needed to support a
> 2Kpps attack on 7 machines?
>
> -arthur
Without giving too many details, I will say that there was never a
2kpps attack on panix..
Avi
