Re: More on iSeries web apps and security -- WEB400

Subject: Re: More on iSeries web apps and security
From: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 16:08:05 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Walden H. Leverich
But even a 400 isn't going to like 500,000 IP connection
requests per second...

It's not that IBM i / Power servers are more powerful than others. In fact, more often than not you get more bang for the buck on Intel platforms. But you get lower TCO when IBM i is managing complex workloads.

Perhaps your point is to stop DDOS attacks at the Web server tier, so that they don't impact application server or database server tiers. I guess that has some appeal, but it seems to me that the best defence is to stop DDOS attacks at a network level, using routers and firewalls, before traffic even gets to a Web server. So that internal LANS are unaffected, though the Internet may be.

Nathan.

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