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Re: 1000% increase in traffic


From: John Kristoff <jtk () AHARP IS-NET DEPAUL EDU>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 23:38:50 -0600

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 06:05:37PM -0500, Bob Wright wrote:
we usally range about 728b/s as our average for output (128k Connection)
[...]
averaging about 7744b/s !! on a weekend at that late of night.

The percentage increase is a lot, but in terms of absolute traffic,
7 Kb/s is not much at all.  It would take a lot of zombies at 7 Kb/s
to DoS anything of significance.  Can you capture the traffic and
see what it is?

John


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