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Re: Crazy flying netbios packets


From: Stephen Stuart <stuart () tech org>
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 13:31:26 -0700

Has anyone done an estimate on how much traffic is USEFUL?

Sturgeon's Law probably applies: ninety percent of everything is crud.

I had taken some measurements off an intranet (sorry, I hate that
word, too) WAN link that showed port 137 UDP traffic to classful
broadcast addresses (as were mentioed earlier) on a scale that made me
invoke Sturgeon's Law on the people who operated the router at the far
end of the link.

Stephen


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