Show HN: DDoS detection in 500 lines of Python (MIT, no cloud, no account)

Category: security

Tags: ddos-detection, network-monitor, python

Score: 5.5/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 5, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

A lightweight, open-source DDoS traffic monitor written in Python that uses scapy for real-time packet capture and outputs structured stats to stdout. It provides basic attack detection with configurable thresholds and both human-readable and JSON output, but serves primarily as a lite preview for a commercial product.

Target audience: devops

Repository: https://github.com/Flowtriq/ftagent-lite · Python · MIT · 33 stars

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