Sure - we had the conversation then, when 1.5Mbit of saturation didn't also exhaust firewall state tables, CPU and memory resources of everything in the service path.

What we do have now, that we didn't have then, are bot-nets for hire and parties who intentionally exploit, infect, test and document these hosts for hire as weapons while the end users in a lot of cases have no idea that it's happening outside of a slower Internet connection.

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> wrote:

On 03/11/14 22:26, McDonald Richards wrote:
> The days of the "any to any, open Internet" are slowly coming to an
> end. One small flaw in one mass produced and mass distributed piece
> of software (including software that runs on CPE) can easily snowball
> into hundreds of gigabits of traffic at the "core" of the Internet (I
> hate that term but I'm too tired to come up with anything else right
> now).

We had this same conversation when people started moving from dial-up to DSL.

"OMG a single user on 1.5 Mbit/s can saturate our entire server farm bandwidth"

The world didn't end. The same rules apply today that applied back then.

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