Correction:  A DDoS comes from thousands of IPs, a DOS from a few or 
singular.  (Distributed being the difference.)

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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com



On 8/2/2010 9:56 AM, Matt wrote:
>> to 1.2Gb/s if I recall correctly. At first we were getting crazy packet loss 
>> because the upstream router was getting hammered.
>> After that they put in a few rules to drop the traffic and that made it 
>> stable, But latency was like +140ms going into it.
> What rules can really help a DOS attack?  I just see it as hard to
> block since usually its coming from thousands of different IP's.  I
> imagine it could look like TCP, UDP or etc.  How can a router tell
> whats legitimate and not?
>
> Matt
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