Subject: Re: Route cache performance under stress

From: Florian Weimer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:48:12 +0200

Ralph Doncaster <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Assuming the attacker has a 100mbps link to you, yes ;->
>
> A script kiddie 0wning a box with a FE connection is nothing.  During what
> was probably the worst DOS I got hit with, one of my upstream providers
> said they were seeing about 600mbps of traffic related to the attack.

Yes, these numbers keep growing.  By today's standards, 6000 Mbps
shouldn't be too surprising. 8-(

One of the servers I keep running was recently flooded with 1500-byte
UDP packets, Fast Ethernet line rate.  It definitely happens if your
pipes are fat enough.