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Date:      Tue, 01 Dec 1998 19:53:50 +0100
From:      sthaug@nethelp.no
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Cc:        karl@Denninger.Net, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, john.saunders@scitec.com.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RE: D.O.S. attack protection enhancements commit (ICMP_BANDLIM)
Message-ID:  <29019.912538430@verdi.nethelp.no>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:30:09 -0800 (PST)"
References:  <199812011730.JAA09274@apollo.backplane.com>

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>     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.

As another example, UNINETT has a 155 Mbps IP over SDH connection to the
Internet. We use rate limiting (Cisco CAR) for ICMP traffic, and currently
have the limit set to 160 kbps. In practice, this is more than enough.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no

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