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Re:Deutsche Telekom says 900k fixed-line customers suffer ou... by noir_lord on Monday November 28, 2016 @10:30AM (#13055993)
What's scary about this is I have 100Mbps fiber at home.

At some point 900,000 routers with 100Mbps fiber might be a realistic user base that would be tremendous amount of traffic to smack people and that's without considering amplification attacks and such.

Thats assuming a volumetric attack, even just "request foo.co.uk every half second" would be catastrophic, 1.8 million requests per second would be a bit of a bugger to handle.

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Re:Deutsche Telekom says 900k fixed-line customers suffer ou... by dx034 on Monday November 28, 2016 @11:58AM (#13056671)
It's probably still 100Mbps download. Upload is much lower (10Mbps perhaps?) and the attack volume is determined by that.

I guess ISP specific attacks (with ISP specific boxes) wouldn't be that much of an issue as the ISP could be blocked. Will deny service to all users there, but the fault is clearly with the ISP, so they have to fix it. It's much more problematic if a generic router that's being used across the globe has a vulnerability. Filtering traffic will be much harder and ISPs will deny responsibility as it's not due to their machines.

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Re:Deutsche Telekom says 900k fixed-line customers suffer ou... by iamzenitraM on Monday November 28, 2016 @05:46PM (#13059099)
OVH recently received a 150gbps DDoS from the biggest ISP on Spain (Telefonica) not long after they deployed symmetric 300mbps to almost all of their domestic customers at a decent price - OVH had to divert traffic over two different routes to be able to even _filter_ all of the incoming traffic.

https://forum.ovh.es/showthread.php?14451-Informaci%F3n-rela... (use Google Translate)

As those connections spread (and they will - if you have optic fiber coverage, the slowest you can get is symmetric 50mbps), things will only get funnier

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Re:Deutsche Telekom says 900k fixed-line customers suffer ou... by vuanotinn on Monday November 28, 2016 @12:21PM (#13056849)
If it's fibre there's no reason for it not to be symmetric (asymmetry is to be expected in DOCSIS/etc).

In any case I can make dozens of requests per second with only 1M upload. I'd say the amount of requests/second will only be limited by the CPU of the router.

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