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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:10:33 +0930
From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
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Subject: Re: Feedback on TCP: Make TCP_RTO_MAX a variable
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Chris Fowler wrote:
> My only question would be that if you did not have this feature how
> would you have solved your problem?


I have no idea.  An option would be to use private managed links, but
that would cost about 100 times as much, and I would not be able to
administer the machines via the internet.

With programs that scan and probe the internet, widely available for
every script-kiddies entertainment, I believe this is, as I said, a
standard characteristic of the internet, and I must live with it.  Had
this been an actual DOS attack on my client, rather than the normal,
random attention from said script-kiddies, reducing TCP_RTO_MAX would
not have helped.
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