Re: bandwidth for bkbits.net (good news)

Andrea Arcangeli
2003-08-31T16:33:28Z

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 09:22:43AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:44:50PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > sure, that's why I said it won't work with synflood.
>
> Someone syncs w/ bkbits every 19 seconds 24x7. We also run our web server

1 syn every 19 seconds is nothing.

> You guys who are saying it can work are thinking (a) one connection of
> long duration (think about all the web hits on bkbits.net, those are all

it doesn't need to be long duration, just longer than a syn or a ping.
If it goes in established for a few packets is should be enough to
throttle it just fine.

Andrea