[ttimrawi]

Considering the fact I've seen this attack first hand. I can tell you a couple of things about it's strength. It's very flexible one minute they are sending packet size 1500 bytes udp, the other they are sending 48 bytes syn tcp 80. However, filtering them with a Firewall is not hard at all since they do have packet patterns you can detect, but even if you can find a firewall and have it on the edge of your network traffic is STILL reaching your network and if you can handle 50Gbps of traffic all coming from a couple of different ASn than "wow".