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RE: Route cache performance under stress

To: Jamal Hadi <hadi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Route cache performance under stress
From: Ralph Doncaster <ralph@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:29:18 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>, CIT/Paul <xerox@xxxxxxxxxx>, "'Simon Kirby'" <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "'David S. Miller'" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>, "fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx" <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Jamal Hadi wrote:

> 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.

-Ralph

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