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Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by wincy on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:46PM (#37552003)
That’s pretty cool. I’d never though about bogons and debogonizing before, it’s like chasing off all the squatters on your property and more keep coming. You need some fat pipes and beefy servers to be able to handle all the bogus traffic of machines trying to hit your server, and also be able to actually fulfill your purpose.

Make sense now why Cloudflare would be one of the only companies that could handle it!

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Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by nielsole on Monday September 18, 2023 @01:33AM (#37552561)
They only had a 10mbit link. Apparently 50mbit/s was the amount of traffic they received.

Mostly everyone could handle this, not just CloudFlare.

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Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by SAI_Peregrinus on Monday September 18, 2023 @11:04PM (#37565179)
CloudFlare reported 10Gib/s when they first switched it on. The 10Mb/s link was deliberately limited.
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Re:AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B by nielsole on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:41PM (#37572552) 

    The last public analysis was done in 2010 by RIPE and APNIC. At the time, 1.1.1.0/24 was 100 to 200Mb/s of traffic, most of it being audio traffic. In March, when Cloudflare announced 1.0.0.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24, ~10Gbps of unsolicited background traffic appeared on our interfaces.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/fixing-reachability-to-1-1-1-1-g...
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