On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Jonathan Adamczewski wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Colin Wenzel wrote:
>
> > Just a question regarding Miami....
> >
> > Whenever I run "Amster", several times an hour I get
> > a little miami pop up & warn that a Ping Flood was detected
> > from IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >
> > Is something I should be watching out for or is this something
> > that Amster is doing to cause this problem.
>
> You know what a ping flood is (I hope) but in this case I think there in
> no problem. Amster/Napster will ping other hosts to help determine
> best download source and I suspect this is a case of Miami(Dx)'s ping
> flood protection being a little too over cautious. I recall having the
> same problem while using Napster on my Bro's pc (while masquerading with
> MiamiDx) so I don't think anyone's trying to do anything to you
> specifically.
Yes, the ping flood detector is a bit trigger-happy. I've seen cases
where it triggered on single pings multiple seconds apart. AFAIK this
only happens on high-speed net connections.
Fred Wright
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