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RioRey's RX1810 Reviewed by Tweakers.net
04/28/2010
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RioRey RX1810: how to put a firewall through hell
Arjen van der Meijden - Wednesday April 28, 2010 9:00 AM
The RioRey RX1810 is an appliance specially developed to counter DDoS attacks. Tweakers.net has purchased this appliance to better protect itself against these kinds of attacks and, since it is an interesting appliance, we have written a review about it.
Attack!
The goal of a Denial of Service attack (DoS, for short) is to render services such as a website or chat server inaccessible. When many attackers are involved in a DoS, this is called a Distributed DoS, or a DDoS.
In its manual, RioRey defines a DDoS as being 'an attack which uses a flood of traffic to overwhelm a server on the Internet.' This straightforward concept can be put into practice in countless straightforward and, in particular, less straightforward ways. An attack may resemble any type of legitimate Internet traffic, and, since the Internet offers thousands of legitimate applications, a DDoS defence must be able to counter thousands of different attacks.
Moreover, it is stated in the manual that most DDoS attacks are carried out nowadays by at least four thousand computers and that botnets involved in the really large attacks involve hundreds of thousands of computers. In addition, RioRey tells us that, at the end of 2008, it only cost 4 dollar cents per bot per day to set up an attack.>
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