Hello,
yesterday one of our clients did something interesting (stupid): they
connected both ends of an UTP cable to the same switch, to which our
FreeBSD server was also connected. The server was immediately completely
unresponsive from yesterday evening until this morning, when our tech
guy went
Nejc Škoberne wrote:
> Hello,
>
> yesterday one of our clients did something interesting (stupid): they
> connected both ends of an UTP cable to the same switch, to which our
> FreeBSD server was also connected. The server was immediately completely
> unresponsive from yesterday evening until this
Your client caused their own DOS by making it impossible to route network
traffic. Basically causing an arp storm. In simple terms, don't do that.
Not much you can do with dumb clients, except reward them with a bill for
their actions.
-Derek
At 08:53 AM 1/10/2007, Nejc koberne w
Nejc Škoberne wrote:
> Any ideas how to prevent such situations in the future? (I would like
> to do it on the server side, not on the "user side".)
Get a switch that runs Spanning Tree Protocol. I don't think there's
much you can do on the server about a problem in the switch.
On Jan 10, 2007, at 6:53 AM, Nejc Škoberne wrote:
yesterday one of our clients did something interesting (stupid): they
connected both ends of an UTP cable to the same switch, to which our
FreeBSD server was also connected. [ ... ]
Any ideas how to prevent such situations in the future? (I would
