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Re:Blacknurse – Low bandwidth ICMP firewall attack by chillydawg on Monday November 14, 2016 @11:50AM (#12951094)
The worrying thing is that a suitably insane whackjob somewhere could spin up their ipcamera botnet and knock, say, half the planet's ISP offline at once.

All routing would stop, the internet would simply grind to a halt. Am I missing something?

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Re:Blacknurse – Low bandwidth ICMP firewall attack by lmm on Monday November 14, 2016 @11:56AM (#12951163)
Not all routing by any means. Just anyone using those particular Cisco and other routers. Fortunately the net routes around damage by design; as routers went offline, other paths would be found.
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