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> That's what bothers me most - I have a suspicion that Alexis didn't even > have to go out of his own domain to look for perpetrators. Then again, I > may be wrong. > > Dima > > Arthur Hyun writes: > > > > i think that Alexis said that the 2nd attack involved something like > > 7 panix machines--just how much bandwidth is needed to support a > > 2Kpps attack on 7 machines? > > > > -arthur Nope, the packets were definitely coming in from the outside (and not out his MCI t1 and in his Sprint t1), but *nothing* like 2kpps. We later got a good fraction of that with a deliberate test attack, though. 2kpps is only 80kbytes/sec, though... Still not straining a t1. Avi - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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