Re: flooding attacks and threats doc (was Re: Comments on draft-bagnulo-multi6dt-hba-00.txt

[Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net>]

marcelo bagnulo braun wrote:
> > This flooding attack is slightly different from the one mentioned in the
> > threats document because there is no real victim invovled. Just the
> > routers and links which still needs to be prevented.
>
> perhaps it would make sense to mention explicitly in the threats 
> document that the target of a flooding attack may not be a host but an 
> access link or an access router?

I agree that the target can be not just a host but also a link,
router, or a network. If the threats document claims otherwise
then it needs to be corrected.

Of course there are some differences in the
threat to a host and to a network, but if you move
someone's DVD download on my GPRS link, I'm hosed whether or
not the target address is my host's address.

--Jari