Getting pounded .. sigh

[sandrews at andrewscompanies.com]

I remember talk some time ago, not here, of a way to slow down the
sender by doing something with an ACK (really out of my pond here).
Anyone know what I might be thinking of?  If there's some way to hold
the connection to sender open, that would slow them down sending out
crap. 

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Dave Strydom wrote:
> Hi Doc,
> 
> Doesn't that just create more load/traffic since your machine still 
> has to accept the tcp connection, take in the data, and then route it 
> to 127.0.0.1, where as an iptables DROP just igore the packets 
> completely?
> 
> Dave


True, but I'm very old school. 8*))

Though, they still are going to generate unwanted traffic/bandwidth even
to an iptables DROP. Either method works guess pick your poison!

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