22 Sep
2006
22 Sep
'06
12:32 a.m.
Does it impact the network operation? Eg, does it adversely affect the network? (say, like Beagle did.)
I was thinking sql-slammer, massive flood causing signifcant amount of network infrastructure to go down. (people on low speed links with large blocks of address space were DoS'ed off the network).
I don't think of drive-by browser/desktop infection as a networking issue, more of an end-host issue.
- Jared
so, how many netops folks use or are forced to use IE in the mgmt of their particular sector of an IP network? netops being deaf/blind; "... the MRTG/Cricket graphs are not visable... does that mean nothing is happening?..." might be considered operationaly significant. Or not.. YMMV... --bill