Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)

Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-09-02T07:01:43Z

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:

>> It doesn't work when you dont control incoming. As a simple extreme
>> example if I pingflood you from a fast site then no amount of shaping
>> your end of the link will help, it has to be shaped at the ISP end.

>sure, that's why I said it won't work with synflood. I just doubt the
>ping/syn floods distributed denial of services are an high percentage of

The traffic on sites like www.microsoft.com, www.kernel.org or I'd say
even www.bkbits.net isn't distinguishable from a DDoS Synflood on a
regular day. A bazillion of different IP addresses from all over the
net trying to establish a TCP connection at the same time. And the
other sides are dog-slow modem/isdn/dsl connections which means high
latency, low bandwith, many retransmits and still they're legal
connections that you want to serve.

Forget it. You can't compare your homegrown ISDN/DSL line with the
traffic of a serious internet service. If you try, you get burned.

Regards
Henning

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