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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: patch: Port- and netscan detection for netfilter
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:57:59 +0100
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Tim Gardner wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> One benefit of being able to block a port scanner is that it reduces or
> stops the amount of ARP traffic that is generated. Depending on your
> internal network design, lots of ARP traffic can have a significant
> impact on WAN links and so on.

Good point.