On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:39:07AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
| James Foster wrote:
|
| >>The log will be _enormous_ and I mean __enormous__
| >
| >It seems to me that the log won't necessarily be very large. It really
| >depends on how the connection is being used, doesn't it? An hours
| >worth of log from a dialup connection couldn't be very large, for
| >example.
| >
|
| I regularly pull 5K bytes/sec. That's a lot of transactions p/h, even on
| dialup.
Bandwidth does not (directly) affect the number of transactions. Just
imagine a trivial program designed to DoS the requested logger. All
it has to do is open and close a connection repeatedly. That requires
sending a SYN, receiving a SYN-ACK, sending an ACK, then sending the
FIN sequence. This is only a handful of bytes, so the bandwidth
limitations of a dial-up connection won't prevent the logs from
growing very large very rapidly.
-D
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