SSH banners come over TCP, requiring the 3-way handshake first, meaning you can't use it for traffic reflection (beyond the SYN-ACK itself).
Right, in general unless you're going to put a lot of care into the state machine to deal with network congestion/abuse it's better to stick with TCP.
Right, in general unless you're going to put a lot of care into the state machine to deal with network congestion/abuse it's better to stick with TCP.