[ttimrawi]

jacquesm,

Not a single provider in the world can handle this kind of attack peacefully without service interruption except China Telecom and China Union.

Your calculations can't be more off about 50K bots, our counts showed more than 100K we couldn't count after that due to limitation in software.

My business has been dealing with DDOS attacks since 2002 we pretty much saw the brunt of every kind of new attack that came online. The only thing that can be compared with magnitude to this is the DNS Amplification attack, but that was limited in it's impact considering the source of the attack was diverse not from one geo area.

[jacquesm]

Force10 will sell you a router that will fend off a DDOS attack with over a million zombies. It's going to cost you though.

Yes, there will be an interruption, but you will be able to get the situation back under control while the attack is still in progress. You will need your upstreams/peers to collaborate.

If you're on the Cisco platform, then good luck to you.