Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)

Jörn Engel
2003-08-31T15:43:15Z

On Sun, 31 August 2003 16:31:32 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 15:45, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:15:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 03:56, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > > I'm pretty convinced we can't solve the problem at our end. Maybe we can
> > >
> > > For bursts of traffic you can't.
> >
> > what's the difference of rejecting packets in software, or because the
> > link can't handle them? Assume the guaranteed bandwidth is much lower
>
> It doesn't work when you dont control incoming. As a simple extreme
> example if I pingflood you from a fast site then no amount of shaping
> your end of the link will help, it has to be shaped at the ISP end.

If someone wants to DOS you, he can. Full stop.

iirc, Larry was worried about well behaved traffic still doing bad
things to his connection.

Jörn

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