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Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama)

From: vijay gill <vgill () vijaygill com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:55:20 +0000


On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 09:45:01PM +0000, vijay gill wrote:

infrastructure today - a large amount of PPS at the _router_ (with or
without md5 or tcpsecure) will blow it out of the water. A 10mbits/s
of packets at the juniper without md5 will also destroy it.


To be clear, I was just using jnx as an example. There are very few
currently shipping boxes that will survive a large PPS attack.

(also to be fair, been a while since I verified the above numbers)

/vijay

Current thread:

Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama), (continued)
- Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) James (Apr 20)
  - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Owen DeLong (Apr 20)
  - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Stephen J. Wilcox (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) James (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Patrick W . Gilmore (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Crist Clark (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Dan Hollis (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) vijay gill (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Rodney Joffe (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) vijay gill (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) vijay gill (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Crist Clark (Apr 20)
  - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Simon Lockhart (Apr 21)
- Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Dan Hollis (Apr 20)
  - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Paul Vixie (Apr 20)
- Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Patrick W . Gilmore (Apr 20)
  - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Patrick W . Gilmore (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) E.B. Dreger (Apr 20)
    - Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama) Peter Galbavy (Apr 20)

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