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?
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