The solution is not more bandwidth. You want to prevent these attacks, not absorb them. Working toward a solution to stop them is regarded highly as the trumping concept. The security industry has made astounding advancements toward this goal.
Inline Hardware, Cloud Analytics (Real Time) and Scrubbing Centers are the solution.
Yes, and those companys DONT PREVENT the attacks because thats impossible, they are scrubbing it and thats another word for absorbing them.
So yes the solution is to have more BW then the attackers, if not you can prove me wrong with a post about it.
Also, Minority Report is not real, thats a movie
First and most obvious, they didn't do it in 10 years
Trouble to implement their cash shop with it's mounts and pets and paid services into the legacy realms, which is a thing they surely would want to do.
Trouble to implement the legacy client into their shiny bnet launcher.
One of the most important points - what vanilla are we talking about ? Vanilla as it was back then 1:1, with all it's 2004 graphics, mostly outdated mechanics, bugs, etc ? Or a vanilla wow polished to todays standards in graphics and with updated mechanics and bugfixing ? I don't think that they will EVER release an original 1.12 client to be played on a blizzard labeled server.
The vanilla version of wow would make the current game look bad.
Lots of people would probably settle for the legacy realm and stop buying expacs.
Scrubbing is not absorbing. These services offer high level detection, interruption, mitigation and prevention techniques using proprietary hardware and software at SoCs around the globe. Traffic becomes rerouted (can also always be routed through) to these centers once an elevated security threat is discovered. This can happen before an attack even approaches it's destination (when referring to variable rerouting, not fixed), in some situations. Can I ask what type of experience you have regarding this matter?
Also, I'm not quite sure I understand the reference to Minority Report, although, I don't believe I've seen the movie.
Edit: I ask what kind of experience you have regarding this matter, not to insult you, but because we can continue a discussion regarding network security in much more detail if I knew the extent of your knowledge.
Bandwidth consuming attacks are seen as only a small fraction of all "high level" network security threats.
If you want to educate yourself a little more - Incapsula and Arbor are two of the biggest names regarding this type of deployment/infrastructure/protection.
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Cloudflare has Anycast network... they have the capability to absorb (thin out) the attack... so a 300Gbps attack can be divided across their infrastructure. But... it still sucks that these R-tards are DDoS'ing our WoW server... may they burn in Hell.
The thing you just described are absorbing.
I highlighted your text, when you re-route the traffic to another network that network absorbs the attack and take the hit instead, that network still need more BW then the attacker to be able to re-route the traffic because if you dont have that the router that will do the re-routing will die, simple as that.
Yes, Scrubbing is absorbing because you absorb all the traffic and let clean and good traffic thru, so you still need 300Gbps of BW to handle a 300Gbps attack if you want to scrub the traffic.
I dont think you really know how this works, there are no magical hardware that cleans traffic from 100Gbps attack hosted on a 10Mbps connection, you always need a bigger pipe then the attacker to do that, everyone with common sense knows this.
OVH for example has a Arbor that can manage 160Gbps attacks, if you attack a OVH server with over 200Gbps that server will get nullrouted if not there arbor will be down and other servers will get attacked/disconnect from the internet, its simple math, 1+1=2.
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Minority Report, you cant PREVENT an attack, the attack will always go off.
Time travel has not been invented yet.
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It's not a single network that all traffic is rerouted to, so no, they are not "absorbing" the attack. The attack never happens. It is deamplified, discarded, dropped before it can reach any level of network crippling potential. The attack only happens if all packets manage to reach a single source (target), this is when the bandwidth is overloaded/consumed.
There is on-premise hardware to put inline. Arbor is only one of the companies offering these solutions or, sometimes proprietary software to integrate with specific Cisco products. Again I ask, what kind of experience do you have regarding this topic? I'm gathering not much from you attempted explanations.
You talked about bandwidth, when it reality, this has nothing to do with how these solutions work.
Yes, but there network are larger then 300Gbps and they are a service created for handling attacks against webservers. Cant really compare webservers with gameservers either.
So, you mean a network that only has 100Mbps capacity can stop a 300Gbps attack if they use the correct hardware?
I mean if the BW has nothing todo with this, please can you explain how? Our company would save hundreds of thousands of dollars every month.
Right now i think you are trolling me
Also, if i fire a gun against you but i miss(or if your friend throws himself infront of you), have i not attacked you?
I'm not trolling you and to be quite honest, I'm done talking to you about it. I can tell you're one of those people that doesn't like to be wrong, which I can most certainly guarantee, you are. You also clearly do not have any knowledge or understanding regarding the subject, you wouldn't be trying to argue your bandwidth point to me if you did. I deploy and support Arbor Network solutions daily. It is one critical aspect out of the many duties my job entails.
If you want a detailed explanation as to how such services (ex. Arbor Network's solutions) work, I recommend you browse their website and read the information which is publicly available.
Here's a short, informative video to help get you started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvaZZWwjJH0
That video is just a commercial and doesn't explain anything. Can you point us to some public written resources that go into more technical detail?
The solution is not more bandwidth. You want to prevent these attacks, not absorb them. Working toward a solution to stop them is regarded highly as the trumping concept. The security industry has made astounding advancements toward this goal.
Inline Hardware, Cloud Analytics (Real Time) and Scrubbing Centers are the solution.