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Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer?
From: Markus Kern <markus-kern () gmx net>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 21:17:19 +0200
gabriel rosenkoetter <gr () eclipsed net> wrote:
Well, seeing as it significantly slows down my 128 up/384 down ADSL connection at least wrt latency (my ssh'ing to machines elsewhere), I'm not convinced it has *no* effect on your ISDN.
Ok, I was curious and sniffed the SYN packets to my client (LimeWire) for about an hour (not very representative, I know). The average was about 9 packets per minute. Assuming 48 byte per SYN packet and 20 byte for each RST makes 10.2 byte/sec. Not too much IMO. Though I guess you'll get more packets on a faster connection because the clients will try them first before bothering with the slow modem users.
Does the fact that the client in question is actually "gnut" on a RedHat 7.1 machine make any difference?
Nope, shouldn't matter AFAIK. Your TTL system makes sense. But as long as the developers rely on the old protocol to maintain backwards compatibility there isn't much room for changes. -- Markus Kern <markus-kern () gmx net> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
Current thread:
- Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer? Jim Starke (Jul 01)
- Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer? gabriel rosenkoetter (Jul 01)
- Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer? Markus Kern (Jul 02)
- Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer? gabriel rosenkoetter (Jul 03)
- Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer? Markus Kern (Jul 05)
- Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer? gabriel rosenkoetter (Jul 06)
- Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer? Markus Kern (Jul 02)
- Re: Why would someone DoS a free-lance writer? gabriel rosenkoetter (Jul 01)