Cyber-attack on U.S. firms, Google traced to Chinese

[Thomas]

No they won't. IP address would remain the same, doesn't matter from which Upstream ISP you would route.

Besides that, APNIC - Home gives IP address to countries of Asia region. So China has to borrow IP address of countries which can be easily bullied. And since it will remain a private IP address within that country and ISP, US would never know.




Actually removing routes will not work as the information will be transferred within other domains in couple of hours, Internet convergence is slow, its made to be slow as there are millions of networks connected. Flapping routes will throw Internet in chaos.

What would US do is poison China's IP address and point it towards bit bucket, means show those IP address as unassigned or not taken therefore data to those destinations can be dropped.

In this case also, US has to ask upstream ISP's (Tier 1) like BT, FT, AT&T, Singtel etc etc to not mask their traffic by its IP.

Its very messy, especially for huge country like china.

Or simply cut the back bones physically?

 

[Cisco-GUY]

Or simply cut the back bones physically?

Cutting the backbones physically is most efficient and viable thought but all International carriers are not owned by US and ,furthermore, even American one couldn't be taken to follow directive from US govt as huge stake and capital is involved.

Its not possible to completely isolate China, but if you are able to cut their 50%- 60% traffic throughput ,its ripples are going to be felt all around.

My advice is also to cut ISD with Internet since its about making a statement and delivering it across their citizens.

Just remember, no one owns the Internet.