In related news, Jim's anti-spamserver script is a good way to DoS your own router if you use aggressive settings.

Seriously, try it. When you're shelled in away from home.

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::grins:: Gnutella might kill your router, too. I used to see problems CONSTANTLY when I worked for [large T-1 provider] because some dumb bunny at a customer's site would install a Gnutella client - usually spyware-riddled LimeWire - and it would single-handedly DoS the edge device because it would try to keep so many concurrent network connections open that it would overload the NAT tables.

Sometimes the fix was to brutally LART the dumb bitch trying to use the company's bandwidth to give the world music. Sometimes it was just to install one of those little Netopias like the one sitting behind my cable modem, to offload NAT duties from the T-1's edge device to something a bit more robust. =)

I still want to get rid of the Netopia too, eventually, and use a *nix box for all my routing.

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I actually never had problems with Gnutella, but I'm 99% certain I never used it behind a router, since I haven't used it in years, and Neil always ran the machine hooked directly to the cable modem.

I have killed this router with a combination of emule and multiple torrent clients running concurrently.

"Cannot resolve www.google.com"
"Cannot resolve (anything).livejournal.com"
"Please turn that shit off and power cycle me."

=/

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Solution: dump one of those wireless PCI cards and an extra NIC in it, set up zebra from the ports tree, and use oyabun for your router. Presto, no more NAT overload problems! :)

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I found (and had to remove) a netopia in an office where it was supposed to have been turned off almost a year ago.

I keep getting tempted to hold on to it instead of sending it back to the corp office so I can play with it for awhile. They obviously forgot where it was anyway.

Ahh.. morals.

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Dude, that's corporate? And it's been missing for a year?

Score.

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