Which is the problem when you get a bunch of academics together....
You could most assuredly knock a router offline, but not crash it. Between rate limiting and preferential routes in BGP, the attacks could play some havoc, but this scenario doesn't pass the smell test.
Besides, try to do a trace lately? Since it's based on ICMP and older DDOS are also ICMP based, many routers now ignore this traffic. So much for the "traceroute" analysis.
Look, you can easily knock my edge routers off the internet, but you can't crash them. They're hardened, as most routers are these days are.
Interesting idea though.
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