Re: Other computers HIGHLY degrading network performance (DoS?)

[Jeffrey H. Ingber]

I think this is what QoS and the like are for.

Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com)

On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 22:43, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote:
> 
> This is not a direct kernel issse.  However, it is a serious threat for the
> network performance of our Linux boxes, therefore I thought of posting it here.
> 
> There is a popular software that runs on MS platform called "download
> accelerator".  This opens several threads for a download job (each one
> downloading a portion of the file), sometimes even using mirror sites.
> However, it not only grabs whole bandwidth, but makes it hard for other
> machines to even ping each other the return time being around 5-10 seconds on a
> 100 Mbps network!  The download process is getting only 64 kbps from the
> Internet.  Internet access is virtually impossible for the other machines.
> 
> This program can run with a `normal download' mode and this doesn't cause a
> big problem.
> 
> I monitored network traffic with tcpdump, and noticed that those packets don't
> have tcp timestamps and tcp sack.  I turned them off on my Linux box using
> sysctl, and also tried turning on ECN without success.
> 
> This is of course a DoS in disguise, and is there a way to stop it?
> 
> I am thinking of setting up a firewall with netfilter and transparent proxy as
> a workaround.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anuradha
> 
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