[45377] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fwd: SlashDot: "Comcast Gunning for NAT Users"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Jan 31 17:57:27 2002
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 14:45:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Eric A. Hall wrote:
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> Dan Hollis wrote:
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> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> > > More than ~4 simultaneous TCP connections open at once.
> >
> > False positives galore...
>
> Then use six or eight or 20000 or whatever number is above the 90% false
> positive threshold
the unix box I'm sitting on, which isn't natted, and isn't serving
anything, lists 133 open tcp connections.
>
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