[aclug-L] Re: Hacker or ??

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 03:26:38PM -0500, gLaNDix (Jesse Kaufman) wrote:
> 
> i haven't really noticed it all that much either, but i need to go back
> in my logs and actually see when it started...  fortunately this time,
> i've only got one of my ip's used, so i'm only getting hits on one
> machine (thank you NATd!) instead of 2 last time...  unless i'm wrong in
> my assumption, that should cut the amount of traffic in half, thus
> affecting my peformance about 1/2 as much...  right?


Well, mostly. You will still get the TCP SYN packet on all of your IP
addresses, but if there is no web server listening, there won't be a
response and there will never be a HTTP GET request and 404
response, which are both bigger packets.

Steve
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