I have a Westel Wirespeed dsl "modem" given to me by SBC (Ameritech at the
time, when they installed my DSL service).  It's hooked up to a D-link
wifi/ethernet "router".  I can run 10 instances of nmap in the background
easily.


On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Toby Barrick wrote:

> Has anyone else run into the problem of "swamping" the connection tables
> in their DSL modems (on the attack side and the target side)? I
> currently have a Zyxel 643 router/ADSL modem that I "wanted to use for
> pen-testing, but the darn thing dies when doing something as simple as a
> port scan.
>
> I you have run into the problem, what was the fix other than throttling
> the scanning app? If a new modem, which one?
>
> TIA
>
> Toby
>
>
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