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Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama)

  • From: vijay gill
  • Date: Tue Apr 20 18:10:52 2004 
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:45:01PM +0000, vijay gill wrote:

> infrastructure today - a large amount of PPS at the _router_ (with or
> without md5 or tcpsecure) will blow it out of the water. A 10mbits/s
> of packets at the juniper without md5 will also destroy it.

To be clear, I was just using jnx as an example. There are very few
currently shipping boxes that will survive a large PPS attack.

(also to be fair, been a while since I verified the above numbers)

/vijay