James Carlson wrote:
> Kacheong Poon writes:
>> Note that I am *not* saying that increasing the ICMP return
>> byte size is not good. But I don't think the suggestion on
>> using rate is good enough. The bandwidth consumed is the
>> number ICMP messages sent per second (rate) times the ICMP
>> packet size. To some sys admins, just controlling the rate is
>> not good enough for them to handle DoS situation.
>
> The max size is already set by the RFCs. You don't make your reply
> larger than 576 octets.
Are you saying that a sys admin should not be allowed
to lower the max?
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K. Poon.
kacheong.poon at sun.com
