[AusNOG] Cisco 7200 a popular "ddos" target?

[Vitaly Osipov]

... and  these days hundreds of megabits worth of DDoS bandwidth can
be bought for a price roughly equivalent to a pint of cheap beer per
hour.

Regards,
Vitaly




On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:46 PM, David Hughes <David at hughes.com.au> wrote:
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> On 29/09/2010, at 12:47 PM, Greg M wrote:
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>> Question is - is there malware out there that is designed to specifically
>> DDoS the vty interfaces (ssh/telnet) of the 7200? It seems bizzare that this
>> would be the case.
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> Nope.  You just have a software based router.  It's not designed to handle a stack of traffic aimed at the control plane.  Just for fun, send a non-production 7200 a flood ping of large ICMP packets (eg 15,000 byte packets) and watch your router try to handle the fragmentation.  It isn't pretty.
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> David
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