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eben
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Jul 12, 2018

AFM DoS/DDoS Route Advertisement

Hi All,   How does route advertisement of attacking addresses really work when creating a DoS/DDoS profile? Saw in documentations that it advertise to upstream routers or firewalls to null route t...
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Peter_Mills_697
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Aug 31, 2018

AFM injects a kernel route into ZebOS which can be redistributed into BGP and black-holed on upstream routers. Latterly we support BGP flowspec (using ExaBGP) as well as RTBH.

 

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    eben
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    Sep 03, 2018

    Thanks Peter.