"I don't doubt that its bad, and that having to deal with nasty people attacking your infrastructure takes time away from more positive work. However it seems like the fundamental problem is that there is a DDoS at all, not so much the padding. If the attacker were trying to overwhelm the link capacity, they'd send larger frames. Sending minimum sized frames means they're trying to overwhelm the receiving machine's ability to process the incoming packets. If the packets were not padded, there would be even more of them." - DGentry