[isp-bgp] Re: BGP-linux

["Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@...]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 alex@... wrote:
> > Not remembering the full details, but I believe the tests were done
> > within a variety of criteria. Its very possible full speed was
> > accomplished with close to full MTU packets only (but that wasn't my
> > original point anyways).
> >Filling up that much BW with 64byte packets is a metric buttload of PPS.
>
> Bull.
> Filling that much bw with 64-byte packets is exactly what happens during
> DoS.

Last DDoS attack I saw was 800,000pps destined for AS27595 over a Gig-E.
I was thinking 1.5mpps for a fastE full of 64byte packets, I was actually
wrong and I think a more resonable number is ~195kpps.
Can I see a PC router doing that?

> If you can forward 300Mbps but your network falls down during DoS, does it
> really matter that you can forward 300Mbps?

Sure, you paid possibly no money for a router that can get you past the
initial cost hump of selling BW.

Didn't you make that assertion to ASR the other day anyways?