On Jan 3, 2014, at 12:32 AM, Eugeniu Patrascu <[email protected]> wrote:

> With modern machines (from a few years back) you can track a lot of 
> connections effortlessly.

I think you don't understand the scale of even small DDoS attacks in terms of 
state-tracking.

Stateful devices put in front of servers which are then DDoSed go down, taking 
down everything behind those stateful devices.  I've seen 3mb/sec of spoofed 
SYN-flood take down a 20gb/sec stateful firewall; I've seen 10kpps of HOIC take 
down a 10gb/sec load-balancer.

This isn't theoretical or speculative.

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