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Re: Windows XP computer spewing packets
From: Dave <david.morris () curvalue nl>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 09:59:10 +0200
Hi, Yes 10^12 packets is a bit high. In one day (quickly checking calculator) there are only 86400 seconds. Do a quick sum and find that your system is supposedly sending out over 11,000,000 packets a second average. Now there is some hardware that could deal with that - but I do not think that a laptop could possibly do this (someone correct me if I am wrong ?). Or even 11,000. So first check your packet totals. I do not think that it they can be correct. Best Regards, Dave On Friday 01 August 2003 18:06, robe0341 () qwest net wrote:
One of the employees here has a Windows laptop, and in the last day, it has sent out over 1,000,000,000,000 packets, and received around 30,000. The 30,000 is a standard load, but the trillion packets seem to be a bit high.
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