[4543] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A modest proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Wed Sep 18 01:31:20 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: dvv@sprint.net (Dima Volodin)
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 01:23:14 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: arthur@support.psi.com, michael@memra.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199609180512.BAA29857@mercury.int.sprintlink.net> from "Dima Volodin" at Sep 18, 96 01:12:46 am
> That's what bothers me most - I have a suspicion that Alexis didn't even
> have to go out of his own domain to look for perpetrators. Then again, I
> may be wrong.
>
> Dima
>
> Arthur Hyun writes:
> >
> > 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
Nope, the packets were definitely coming in from the outside (and not
out his MCI t1 and in his Sprint t1), but *nothing* like 2kpps.
We later got a good fraction of that with a deliberate test attack,
though.
2kpps is only 80kbytes/sec, though... Still not straining a t1.
Avi
