On Mon, 03 Jul 2000 05:36:04 +0500, Ahsan Ali wrote: >ICMP source quench messages are sent when your host (or a process on your >host to be precise) is sending data too fast for the network/remote end to >handle. These messages tell your machine to slow down its tranmission to let >the remote end cope with the traffic. Thanks for the explanation. >You shouldn't filter them unless you're flooding someone intentionally... ;p Naaah, I'd never do that. :-) Seriously, what Ben said also seems reasonable. On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:47:03 -0700 (PDT), Ben wrote: >Actually, I thought an easy DOS attack was to send a machine a bunch of >source quenches until it slowed down so much it was practically offline. Is this reason enough to filter source quench messages? -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
