[69926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TCP RST attack (the cause of all that MD5-o-rama)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W.Gilmore)
Wed Apr 21 15:48:24 2004
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0404211951040.22749@fogarty.jakma.org>
Cc: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W.Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 15:46:38 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Apr 21, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Patrick W.Gilmore wrote:
> try not to include text after your sig. some people set their mailers
> to strip sigs from replies.
Wasn't that important.
[...]
> Which is only 28 hours at 10kpps:
>
> 1042284544/(10*1000)/3600 = 28.95234
>
> bit less likely admittedly.
From my original post: "at 10K pps it would still take ~29 hours on
average". (I consider "28.95" closer to 29 than 28, but that's me.)
So I would say we are in agreement. Thanx for checking my math.
--
TTFN,
patrick
P.S. It is really nice for everyone to keep agreeing with me. :)
