Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:30:09 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, John Saunders <john.saunders@scitec.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RE: D.O.S. attack protection enhancements commit (ICMP_BANDLIM) Message-ID: <199812011730.JAA09274@apollo.backplane.com> References: <005b01be1cf6$e6368da0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> <199812010708.XAA03688@apollo.backplane.com> <199812011619.LAA04055@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19981201103044.A55812@Denninger.Net> <199812011641.IAA07525@apollo.backplane.com> <19981201111424.A55857@Denninger.Net>
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:> :20kpps of ICMP traffic?! Surely you jest!
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:> I wish I were.
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:I was talking about 20kpps of LEGITIMATE ICMP traffic :-)
Oh. no. 20Kpps of illegitimate ICMP traffic. It would be pretty
hard to get even 10pps of legitimate ICMP traffic. Our most heavily
loaded web server only generates 0.5 pps or so in ICMP packets and
receives maybe 1 pps in ICMP.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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