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Re: Congestion or regression testing DDoS

  • From: J.D. Falk
  • Date: Wed Feb 09 04:01:12 2000

On 02/08/00, Sean Donelan <[email protected]> wrote: 

> If you think of it as "congestion" instead of a DoS, are there any tools
> we use to control congestion which could be adapted to lessen the effects
> of a DoS?  Would RED(and RED variations), rate limiting, or any of the
> many QoS knobs help?

	Sure, just get all the attackers to set the lowest priority
	QoS on their packets....

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