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Old 03-22-2004, 08:07 AM  
SWiTCH2
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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In a nutshell

You have 100's maybe 1000's of computers sending tiny amounts of traffic to a single destination.

The destination bandwidth is saturated with bogus attempts, making it slow/crash your server for a legit user to view.

hence Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
to a legit user.
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