A modest proposal

Wed Sep 18 05:23:14 UTC 1996

> That's what bothers me most - I have a suspicion that Alexis didn't even
> have to go out of his own domain to look for perpetrators. Then again, I
> may be wrong.
> 
> Dima
> 
> Arthur Hyun writes:
> > 
> > i think that Alexis said that the 2nd attack involved something like
> > 7 panix machines--just how much bandwidth is needed to support a
> > 2Kpps attack on 7 machines?
> > 
> > 						-arthur

Nope, the packets were definitely coming in from the outside (and not
out his MCI t1 and in his Sprint t1), but *nothing* like 2kpps.

We later got a good fraction of that with a deliberate test attack,
though.

2kpps is only 80kbytes/sec, though...  Still not straining a t1.

Avi