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Re: Comcast and University of Colorado
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:13:22 -0700
________________________________________ From: Brett Glass [brett () lariat net] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:35 AM To: David Farber; ip Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Comcast and University of Colorado Dave: Apparently, my guesses as to why the UC students obtained the results they did from their flawed experiment were not right on the mark, but close. The students now report that they were accessing Comcast's network through their own NAT router (possibly one with DoS protection), and that the router apparently began to generate RST packets as it protected itself from NAT table overflows due to the SYN flood. (This is another example of a legitimate reason to use RST packets to cut off connections.) A retraction appears at http://systems.cs.colorado.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Broadband_Network_Management --Brett Glass ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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