Blocking based on source, not destination which much kit will happily do
in silicon for you - " //ip verify unicast/ source reachable-via any/"
in IOS-speak. Team Cymru have a good guide on this at
http://www.team-cymru.org/Services/Bogons/bgp.html which is aimed at
those using their Bogons BGP service, but it works just as well if
you're providing your own source of known-bad IPs and distributing to
all your edge devices via BGP.

If you have good real-time reporting of Netflow statistics, you can
identify sources via high pps quickly and add them to your blackhole
list. One caveat is that it's generally a harder sell to management as
there are no glossy brochures for them to look at.

On 29/04/2013 16:20, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> the below is true but means you typically bin the good traffic to your
> customer also...
>
> Sent from my iPad 
>
> On 29 Apr 2013, at 16:00, "Zoë O'Connell" <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>> On 29/04/2013 12:53, Simon Green wrote:
>>>
>>> We’re looking at DDoS mitigation options at the moment, and one
>>> vendor we’ve spoken to has recommended NSFOCUS and their ADS line.
>>> Has anybody had any experience with these or similar, and also any
>>> ideas on competitor costs?
>>>
>>
>> I've not used that particular brand, but I have not yet come across a
>> DDoS attack that could not be mitigated by a combination of
>> remote-triggered blackhole routing, upstreams willing to filter and
>> decent firewall/UTM devices. The only time a company I've worked for
>> has had to disconnect a customer due to an attack was a shared
>> hosting customer where it was decided as director level that it
>> simply wasn't worth spending any time whatsoever on it.
>>
>> What the DDoS protection boxes generally buy you is a marginally
>> faster response in some cases and the ability to get some sort of
>> limited response when senior staff are not immediately available.
>> They are also useful as one element of an overall DDoS mitigation
>> strategy if you expect to come under serious, repeated attack due to
>> the nature of the site you host. (E.g. finance or gambling related)

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