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Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?


From: Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 23:09:38 +0300


Johannes Ullrich wrote:

Well, if '100%' includes all the garbage traffic generated by the
worm d'jeur. On my home cable modem connection, about 80% of the
packets hitting my firewall are 'junk'. Maybe I would be able
to actually share files unencrypted using MSFT file sharing. If I can
manage to inject the necessary traffic between all the Nachia Pings and
Blaster scans.
Once upon a time there was a proposal for a protocol which allowed clients to push a filter configuration to the edge router to both classify traffic and filter unneeded things. For reason or another, this supposedly ended in the bit bucket?

Pete




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