Re: Smurf Amp Nets

[Jon Lewis <jlewis () inorganic5 fdt net>]

On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Richard Thomas wrote:

> Might want to add a delay considering the amount of bandwidth they will be receiving if they tried to send out all 
> those probes at once. In a previous message it was stated that a probe uses 4x64bytes, plus amplification by the 
> broadcasts. I just took the SAR offline for about 4 minutes while trying running a SMALL portion of my bcasts through 
> your script on my 28.8k modem, and it didn't even come close to completing that portion. That fact aside you won't 
> get very accurate results if the SAR is so flooded it can't receive the replies. I would suggest they use ping 
> -s 1 or -s 8 if the timing information is desired.

I've inserted a sleep(5); just after the system() line.  That should help
a bit...and it doesn't really matter how long registration takes if it's
automated and logging output to a file for later examination.

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