Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com> 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. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
