Wait. So; just because you've studied with someone makes your opinion correct? Damn. I wish I would have known that long ago! In both my education tracts of medicine and CS, I've studied with some pretty great minds and I could have been passing off my opinion as fact for decades now.

I wish I would have received that memo. </sarcasm>

A request from authority isn’t a counter argument. And it doesn’t mean your opinions about this attack were correct.

Congratulations on knowing what a bastion server is though. But that’s extremely common knowledge and doesn’t prove your point either.

Perhaps you can share how a layer 7 inspection tool might mitigate a layer 4 attack an actual networking terms?