In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Valdis.Kletni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>Question: What speed access is needed to guarantee "mean time to download
>patches" is significantly less than "mean time to probed by packet-to-0wn"
>(significantly == 20x lower still gives a 5% chance of getting 0wned
>while patching)?
>
It's not just the download time, it's the install time. I recently
upgraded a win2k box to winxp. Download was very fast -- my office has
excellent connectivity. But the patch installation took so long that I
had to disconnect the Ethernet cable so I could go home.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
