What options exist if you want to handle this traffic and you own your hardware on prem? It seems that any router or switch over 100G is extremely expensive, a

What options exist if you want to handle this traffic and you own your hardware on prem? It seems that any router or switch over 100G is extremely expensive, and often requires some paid for OS. The pro move would be to not block these bots. Well I guess block them if you truly can't handle their throughput request (would an ASN blacklist work?) Or if you want to force them to slow down, start sending data, but only a random % of responses are sent (so say ignore 85% of the traffic they spam you with, and reply to the others at a super low rate or you could purposely send bad data) Or perhaps reachout to your peering partners and talk about traffic shaping these requests.