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> As a result, there are some people whose ability to withstand a DDoS has more to do with packets per second than bits per second, so it becomes a useful metri
by elithrar 6y ago
> As a result, there are some people whose ability to withstand a DDoS has more to do with packets per second than bits per second, so it becomes a useful metric.
Right, definitely. A large sports streaming event might (easily!) do 10Tbps across a country, even more, but each GB served may only represent ~5k requests - 10e3/8 * 5e3 = 6.25M RPS, with each request being a single packet (small GET requests). That's big, but workable across enough machines for a big provider.
500M Pps is 80x that figure - you're basically DoS'ing header processing filters in your networking hardware.