D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

Tue Jan 5 03:14:15 UTC 2010

On Jan 5, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote:

> We have such a configuration in progress, it works great without any of the issues you're proposing.

Then you aren't testing it to destruction, heh.

;>

If it's a stateful firewall, and state-tracking is turned on, it's quite possible to craft sufficient pathological traffic which conforms to the firewall policies and yet which leads to state-table inspection.  

And the stateful firewall serves no purpose in front of servers, in which *every incoming packet* is unsolicited.  Far more sensible to enforce policy in stateless ACLs in ASIC-based router/switch hardware.

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