[Asterisk-Users] call "load balancing"

[tim panton]

On 10 Aug 2005, at 16:48, Michiel van Baak wrote:

> On 08:45, Wed 10 Aug 05, Jean-Michel Hiver wrote:
>
>> 1) your provider is voluntarily screwing up VoIP traffic
>> 2) some idiot purposingly fills up your pipe with UDP traffic
>>
>>
>
> If they fill the pipe with TCP traffic, UDP will be dead as
> well. Protocols don't matter, bandwidth does.

Actually they do. A smart router/firewall can manage inbound
TCP traffic by delaying or dropping outbound acks. This will cause any
correct TCP implementation to back off.

Clearly this isn't perfect, it won't help you if you are being DOS'd
but it will throttle inbound http/smtp.

Tim.


http://www.westhawk.co.uk/

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