Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398M rps

Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by mgaunard on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:47AM (#37833665)

398M rps means a request every 2.5ns.

Most likely the figure is incorrect, or at least misleading.

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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by ncr100 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @11:50AM (#37833715)

Well .. it's a novel minimalistic attack. A trivial attack.

Cloud Flare also got one of these, 201 RPS.

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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by mgaunard on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @12:53PM (#37834531)

Minimum frame size is about 100 bytes. At 100Gbps, that's a top bandwidth of one frame every 8 nanoseconds.

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Re:Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking... by menscher on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @01:39PM (#37835063)

Most likely Google has more than one computer.

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