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Re:Someone Has Infected at Least 500,000 Routers All Over th... by lossolo on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:53PM (#17145914)
It's not so much as amount of connections but amount of small packets sent. I can handle 500k connections without problems with enough RAM. You don't need a lot of connections to DDOS someone, you only need a lot of small packets (~84 bytes) or in case of volume attack a lot of 1536 bytes packets.
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