From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 12 11:30:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA21244 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA21154 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA07267; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:26:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199609121826.LAA07267@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: SYN Resisting (fwd) To: karl@Mcs.Net (Karl Denninger) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:26:05 -0700 (MST) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, karl@Mcs.Net, koshy@india.hp.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609121523.KAA16744@Jupiter.mcs.net> from "Karl Denninger" at Sep 12, 96 10:23:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I heard someone mention 25% packet loss on an Australia-USA line (packets > > were being dropped in the USA). > > With a 25% packet loss rate you've got bigger problems. Like you are probably ignoring source quench. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.