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Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables
HiroDeckard writes "Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do TCP packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their users. This practice may be a thing of the past as it's been found a simple rule in the Linux firewall, iptables, can simply just block their reset packets, returning your BitTorrent back to normal speeds and allowing you to once again connect to all your seeds and peer. If blocking the TCP packet resets becomes a common practice, on and off of Linux, it'll be interesting to see the next move in the cat-and-mouse game between customers and service providers, and who controls that bandwidth."
It'll bust their trace buster buster.
I heard it through the sandvine.
Disconnect and self-destruct, one bullet at a time.
Now he needs to add a rule to iptables to save the webserver from the Slashdot effect.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Rule #6.
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
And, wow that site went down fast.
Nah, your ISP just sent a RST to both ends as soon as the connection was established.
And not just IP! When I'm done stealing IP I'll steal BGP and ICMP!
The internet will be mine, mine! Mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
viciously, not viscously. I'll have to learn to read my previews more closely.
Rule 34
Choosing the lesser of two evils is a choice for evil.
The first rule of Usenet is, you do not talk about usenet.
The second rule of Usenet it, YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT USENET.
Fscking n00bs.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
WTF?! Is downloading some Fedora installation CDs via BitTorrent stealing?
I don't know what that is. Can you put it in terms of cars?
On top of everything, everybody seems to think it's their job to carry the Internet on its back and figure it out somehow. The end customer likes to have huge amounts of bandwidth for pennies.
Damn, those lousy cellular customers are making a lot of calls on our unlimited rates plan. Let's just cut off their calls or make the service so distorted that they hang up themselves.
Damn, those idiotic customers are all watching hi-dev TV on their cable. Maybe we should switch the output signal to low-def.
Stupid drivers, since the population of the city has grown this roadway has been plugged. Let's give them a lesson by dropping speed limits and closing lanes.
Darnit, people are actually using our long-distance plan to call relatives in the other side of the country more... let's just block their calls randomly with a busy signal.
Too many nerds are visiting slashdot these days, it's getting bogged down. We're tired of upgrading servers, so let's just leave them with these Pentium III's and delete the account of anyone who posts too often.
We don't put up with this shit in other marketplaces, why should we put up with it in regards to the internet? Part of a company's planning procedures should be to map out weak areas in infrastructure, predict where/when capacity increases need to be made, and make improvements where necessary.