[19269] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Crazy flying netbios packets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Stuart)
Thu Sep 3 16:48:03 1998
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Sep 1998 14:08:12 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 13:31:26 -0700
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart@tech.org>
> Has anyone done an estimate on how much traffic is USEFUL?
Sturgeon's Law probably applies: ninety percent of everything is crud.
I had taken some measurements off an intranet (sorry, I hate that
word, too) WAN link that showed port 137 UDP traffic to classful
broadcast addresses (as were mentioed earlier) on a scale that made me
invoke Sturgeon's Law on the people who operated the router at the far
end of the link.
Stephen
