On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:00:06 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote,
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:48:39 PST, Jeff Shultz said:
Smurf.
Okay. What will this do to my user's ping and traceroute times, if anything? I've got users who tend to panic if their latency hits 250ms between here and the moon (slight exaggeration, but only slight).
I just love it when I've got people blaming me because the 20th hop on a traceroute starts returning * * * instead of times.
So you rate limit it to several/second or something appropriate for the normal traffic levels. You don't allow ping/traceroute to broadcast addresses.
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