[AusNOG] DDoS attack sizes

[Andrew Tschudi]

The problem is even 10 gbit will not get you far it is arms race for
capacity which you cannot win, perfect example is this 90 gbit attack.

http://www.micron21.com/90gbit-ddos.php

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Nick Evendor <nickevendor at outlook.com>
wrote:

> Yesterday we experienced an 850 megabit DDoS attack towards a hosting
> customer which almost filled our gigabit uplink and made our upstream
> provider call me on a Sunday due to abnormal traffic on our port.
>
> Thank god it was Sunday so our network was underutilized with no
> collateral damage and everything remained working, but I asked the upstream
> provider what we can do about it other than null routing the destination
> and they said purchase more capacity.
>
> In the past we have seen a few attacks but they have only been a few
> hundred megabits and never come close to saturating our gigabit uplink.
>
> What size attacks are people seeing and is it time to over purchase
> bandwidth and move to a ten gigabit service.
>
> Nick
>
>
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