Hi, thank you all for the various interesting details about real life cases.
Regards, -- Alessio Pace. On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Michael Weiss <w...@borasi.de> wrote: > 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 >
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