Re: Tactics for surviving heavy DDoS attack?

["Ali, Saqib" <docbook.xml () gmail com>]

i don't think there is any real solution to a DDOS attack. It is a
problem for both carbon-based life and cyberspace alike.

saqib
http://doctrina.wordpress.com/

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 5:00 PM,  <offset> wrote:
> I haven't been able to find any information regarding how to survive a sustained
>  heavy DDoS attack (ie. greater than 2G/sec) from a providers perspective.  I see
>  a lot of information on what DDoS is, how not to be an amplifier, etc, but
>  not much on best practice router/switch configs, hardware/solutions to stay alive
>  during a DDoS attack, etc.
>
>  If you are an ISP, other than calling your upstream provider to null route the
>  target IP, what other options are available?
>
>  -offset



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Saqib Ali, CISSP, ISSAP
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net