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Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today

  • From: Mike Tancsa
  • Date: Thu Aug 28 16:59:51 2003 
At 11:47 PM 28/08/2003 +0300, Petri Helenius wrote:
connections has passed the dialup ones a few years ago. Dialup users also cannot generate any
significant DDoS traffic even if combined by a factor of 10000.

a)http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/papers.html#p75-kuzmanovic
b)Trinity v3/Stacheldraht can do wonders against the CPU of many cisco routers
c)'dialup' and the way IPs are handed out are often the same for DSL users who connect on demand.
d)See the recent thread on rebooting TNTs and 5300s....

---Mike