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If it were possible to stop some of that 10X before it even got to the pipe, would be the only kind of mitigation for that kind of attack. For something like th
by fryguy 12y ago
If it were possible to stop some of that 10X before it even got to the pipe, would be the only kind of mitigation for that kind of attack. For something like that though, would require some pretty sophisticated firewall technology that lives outside of your infrastructure.
- pixl97 12y agoBefore it got to who's pipe? ISP's have very little interest in filtering outbound traffic. Most clients have limited upstream, and they would have to pay for the expense of this filter. If you botNet 100,000 computers in different places each ISP they are on suffers very little, the target suffers a lot, and the carrier in between has very little interest in spending CPU time on fixing the issue.