> > I agree the response is indeed sad, but I believe that's typical for that > sort of forum. Watching the traffic coming in to your router and charting it > > is NOT any sort of violation of any *rational* AUP. Going farther than that > might well be. The average user of cable internet access has little idea of > what goes on beyond the screen. I've noted that DSL reports has a few decent > > posters and occaisionaly has good advise, but frequently is populated by > *twinks*. Considering that you are supposed to be 2Mbs down... I'd doubt > that the garbage is that substantial an issue. I've takn to REJECT with tcp > reset for anything targetting the windows filesharing ports off my segment. > It seems to slow the constant scans, but may be bad policy. I do know that > the ISP i'm with has a 'no filtering ' policy, and thats one reason I'm with > them. But there are days (immediately after a new worm comes out like?) when > > I wish...... > > In your case its possible that traffic from other folks on your segment is > > causing the slow connection. However keep in mind that you get decent TCP > ping times and poor pings in the game. Perhaps the problem exists with the > *game* servers being slow to respoind to udp traffic due to their load. > > > > > > > > ===== > > In the absence of order there will be chaos. > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > > http://shopping.yahoo.com > > -- > > Alistair Tonner > nerdnet.ca > Senior Systems Analyst - RSS > > Any sufficiently advanced technology will have the appearance of magic. > Lets get magical! > This is the section that I am wondering about in Charter's AUP. 7. NO ?HACKING" Customer will not use, nor allow others to use, the Service to access the accounts of others or to attempt to penetrate security measures of the Service or other computer systems (?hacking?) or to cause a disruption of the Service to other on-line users. Customer will not use, nor allow others to use, tools designed for compromising network security, such as password-guessing programs, cracking tools, packet sniffers or network probing tools. Wouldn't ntop be considered a "probing" tool? And getting back to my original reason and question for this post. How statistically can you see just how much iptables/netfilter is using of system resources? Thanks Everyone SBlaze ===== In the absence of order there will be chaos. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com
