Re: Naughty Comcast

["Dennis Henderson" <hendomatic () gmail com>]

On 10/19/07, Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de> wrote:
> * Blue Boar:
>
> > I took that to mean they were injecting RST packets, ala the great
> > Firewall of China.
>
> RST packets do not work that well to reduce bandwidth consumption
> because the client immediately tries to establish a new connection
> (maybe to a different host, but still).  You need to do something that
> stalls the connection by confusing the TCP at one end.
> _______________________________________________



Forge zero window packets for tcp or source quench for udp..

That can slow things down pretty good.

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