Threshold for DDOS Attack

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I am trying to understand and simulate SYN Flood DDOS attacks. I am using snort to give me alerts. While I have control over the rate for my testing, I am interested in knowing what a good estimate of the traffic rate might be for an actual attack?



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    I am trying to understand and simulate SYN Flood DDOS attacks. I am using snort to give me alerts. While I have control over the rate for my testing, I am interested in knowing what a good estimate of the traffic rate might be for an actual attack?



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      I am trying to understand and simulate SYN Flood DDOS attacks. I am using snort to give me alerts. While I have control over the rate for my testing, I am interested in knowing what a good estimate of the traffic rate might be for an actual attack?



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          I believe the average rate these days (Nov 2018) is on the order of 3 Gbps (though large scale attacks can easily go up to 100 Gbps). One note, TCP SYN floods are a fairly uncommon vector these days. UDP floods are much more common.






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            Nowadays TCP SYN attacks are not common, focus more on UDP amplification attacks over DNS, memcache and other UDP services. On the other hand, if you want to compute the traffic rate you can use the formula, IP header (20 bytes) + TCP header (20/32) bytes per packet, so is easy to know how many packets per second you need to send if you want a 1GB for example.






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              I believe the average rate these days (Nov 2018) is on the order of 3 Gbps (though large scale attacks can easily go up to 100 Gbps). One note, TCP SYN floods are a fairly uncommon vector these days. UDP floods are much more common.






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                I believe the average rate these days (Nov 2018) is on the order of 3 Gbps (though large scale attacks can easily go up to 100 Gbps). One note, TCP SYN floods are a fairly uncommon vector these days. UDP floods are much more common.






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                  I believe the average rate these days (Nov 2018) is on the order of 3 Gbps (though large scale attacks can easily go up to 100 Gbps). One note, TCP SYN floods are a fairly uncommon vector these days. UDP floods are much more common.






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                  I believe the average rate these days (Nov 2018) is on the order of 3 Gbps (though large scale attacks can easily go up to 100 Gbps). One note, TCP SYN floods are a fairly uncommon vector these days. UDP floods are much more common.







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                      Nowadays TCP SYN attacks are not common, focus more on UDP amplification attacks over DNS, memcache and other UDP services. On the other hand, if you want to compute the traffic rate you can use the formula, IP header (20 bytes) + TCP header (20/32) bytes per packet, so is easy to know how many packets per second you need to send if you want a 1GB for example.






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                        Nowadays TCP SYN attacks are not common, focus more on UDP amplification attacks over DNS, memcache and other UDP services. On the other hand, if you want to compute the traffic rate you can use the formula, IP header (20 bytes) + TCP header (20/32) bytes per packet, so is easy to know how many packets per second you need to send if you want a 1GB for example.






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                          Nowadays TCP SYN attacks are not common, focus more on UDP amplification attacks over DNS, memcache and other UDP services. On the other hand, if you want to compute the traffic rate you can use the formula, IP header (20 bytes) + TCP header (20/32) bytes per packet, so is easy to know how many packets per second you need to send if you want a 1GB for example.






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                          Nowadays TCP SYN attacks are not common, focus more on UDP amplification attacks over DNS, memcache and other UDP services. On the other hand, if you want to compute the traffic rate you can use the formula, IP header (20 bytes) + TCP header (20/32) bytes per packet, so is easy to know how many packets per second you need to send if you want a 1GB for example.







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