[65394] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worm Bandwidth [was Re: Santa Fe city government computers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Nov 25 09:21:33 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:20:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0311250110050.4899@dragon.as23028.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Rob Thomas wrote:
> Our choke points were always our peering or transit links. This
> was the case for our (large) enterprise customers as well.
Some people refer to it as the hourglass effect, but it has more than one
bump. Generally only the smallest bottleneck controls the congestion.
But worms and DDOS (but not DOS) violate some of the assumptions.
lower bandwidth<---->higher bandwidth
Local Area Network (LAN)
Campus Area Network
Customer to ISP uplink
ISP POP to Backbone
ISP Intra-Backbone
ISP to ISP transit/peer (same continent)
Intercontinental circuits
Of course, there are some exceptions like a customer with an OC192 uplink
or an ISP running a web hosting center on a ISDN link.
