[nycbug-talk] Some DoS benchmarking

alex at pilosoft.com alex
Sat Mar 19 14:28:50 EST 2005


On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Isaac Levy wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2005, at 1:24 PM, alex at pilosoft.com wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > Not really. See pktgen.
> [snip]
> 
> Hey Alex- can you please stop trolling for a sec and explain what 
> pktgen does to replicate thousands of actual machines in a ddos?
can you pretty please with a sugar on top explain how 500 machines sending 
one packet per second are different from one machine sending 500 packets 
per second?

packet is a packet is packet. by the time it gets to your host, it doesn't 
matter at all who or what or when sent it.

no trolling, just cluebombs being dropped.

-alex





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