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Re:The Daily DDoS: Ten Days of Massive Attacks by throwwatgku on Friday December 02, 2016 @09:38AM (#13088818)
Anyone not using syn cookies is foolish these days. With the modified handshake a regular machine can handle 1Gbps+ of these packets
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Re:The Daily DDoS: Ten Days of Massive Attacks by majke on Friday December 02, 2016 @12:23PM (#13090470)
Right. Assuming it was SYN floods, and spoofed IP addresses, do you imply that Cloudflare should send back 400gbps of SYN+ACK syn cookies packets to the wide internet?
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