On Monday 24 August 2009 13:28:59 Alessio Pace wrote: > I was wondering if NAT boxes (of course with possible differences from > vendor to vendor) employ a sort of "upper bound" for the number of active > filtering rules
Most consumer devices will be limited by RAM. I remember a DSL router not being able to open new connections about 30 seconds after a box with W32.Blaster connected. It was however able to handle 4 people using skype and quite a lot of file sharing clients with unreasonable settings simultaneaously. Another situation where i noticed limits was in a wireless mesh network where many connections from many nodes are funneled through one internet gateway. There used to be a policy of about 100 active connections per user or maybe new connections within a period of 1 to 5 minutes ... my memory is fuzzy here and it's not valid anymore because users hit that limit frequently but temporarily. Think of what happens when you start a browser that is trying to load 40 tabs at once. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
