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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: A modest proposal
Allan Chong writes: > The phone company keeps a record of every incoming and outgoing call > on every line, and performs all sorts of analysis on time of day and > carrier, and who gets paid for it. [...] > ISPs need > to spend the money to make this a reality and keep accounting data > for at least several days or a week. The volume of IP datagrams exceeds the volume of calls worldwide by orders of magnitude. The cost of a router is orders of magnitude lower than the cost of a phone switch. The quantity of data required to log all packets going by is only about a factor of ten less than the total data crossing the network. Imagine the size of the disks involved. In sort, this is not the way to stop SYN attacks. Perry - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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