What bandwidth is your link. If someone floods you with the full link
bandwidth then the upstream ISP is needed to control it. Fortunately at
those kind of rates it is very traceable.
> I haven't looked at the networking code, but the supposition is that the
> firewall should drop the offending packets and not allow them to consume
> my entire stack.
No. The firewall can't magically tell who was a "good" connection, and
if as I suspect you simply ran out of bandwidth you lose. The first rule
of information and real warfare is the same "man with biggest club wins"
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