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No, I meant just a usual gateway. I thought a gateway would work for that purpose. Are you sure it wouldn't? In that case there's no defending against ddos.
by brokenmachine 2y ago
No, I meant just a usual gateway.
I thought a gateway would work for that purpose.
Are you sure it wouldn't? In that case there's no defending against ddos.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoA gateway (router/firewall) on your own connection cannot protect you against a DDoS. Really nothing at your connection can prevent you from getting DDoSed. The attacker can cause you to go offline/degraded even if you are 100% successful at dropping his packets. They still fill up your inbound pipe and prevent (or majorly hinder) legitimate traffic from fitting in. The filtering/dropping of packets has to be upstream of your connection to be able to protect your connection - additionally somewhere where the available bandwidth is greater than the attacker's bandwidth.