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Because throwing UDP packets requires a bandwidth advantage (aside from reflection attacks), whereas application-layer attacks can impose an outsized cost on the victim.

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But you said line rate - that's a simple bandwidth exhaustion.

Line rate of sender != line rate of receiver (I am also not GP).

It probably is though. They're probably both 1Gbps Ethernet.

It's a federated network, so even if everyone has symmetrical 1Gbps links you cant throw 1Gbps at all of them at once.

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