Arbor Networks DoS defense product

Wed May 15 06:14:35 UTC 2002

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:

> If and when
> (a) customers don't get exemption for attack traffic
> (b) the DoS traffic occurs more than 5% (or 1 - your percentile level) of
> the month per customer circuit
> (c) the DoS increases bytes transferred like large ICMP packet flood; this
> is not the case for all DoS traffic, which can be a bunch of small packets
> that actually decreases traffic

These might apply to noticeable DoS attacks that occur as
specific events. But how much (D)DoS traffic goes unnoticed
by the average customer because it's too tough to detect or
defend against? The 10% I've measured on my network is
primarily reflected DDoS (reflected off my customers, to
off-net targets), which is not trivial to detect or defend
against.

Pete.