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by dancek 253 days ago
The article talks about 26M requests per second. It's theoretical, of course.
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noAnswer 253 days ago
Not requests, packets: "And according to some benchmarks Wikipedia cites, you can drop 26 million packets per second on consumer hardware."

The Number in the Title is basically fantasy. (Not based on the authors RL experience.) So is saying a DDoS is well distributed over 24 hours.

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