On 6 Feb 2015, at 23:23, Darden, Patrick wrote:
And when your opinion is an acknowledged universal constant, I will
tip my hat to you.
It's been a constant for the last couple of decades - I can't count the
number of times I've been involved in mitigating penny-ante DDoS attacks
which succeeded *solely* due to state exhaustion on stateful firewalls,
'IPS' devices, and load-balancers.
I've seen a 20gb/sec commercial stateful firewall taken down by a
3mb/sec spoofed SYN-flood.
I've seen a 10gb/sec commercial load-balancer taken down by 60 second at
6kpps - yes, 6kpps - of HOIC.
And so on, and so forth.
'Dismiss' it all you like, but it's a real issue, as others on this list
know from bitter experience.
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Roland Dobbins <rdobb...@arbor.net>
