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Ask HN: How do you bring down your own home network?
Just for kicks I thought I'd do a little hacking of my own network. What are some tools or simple hacks to bring the network to a standstill?
And sure you can tell me to get a life and I'm a bored teenager but I do have a life and I'm not bored at all, I'm so busy I need a little rnr.
- inportb 15y agoGo unplug your routers/switches/hubs for massive lulz!
- joshmlewis 15y agohighly effective..
- veyron 15y agoverizon fios routers cannot handle more than 16 wireless devices at home
- madhouse 15y ago$ ssh root@router # ifdown -a; ifup -a Oops.
- nantes 15y agoBefore I upgraded to a router with more memory, I found that a couple of moderately popular torrents would fill up the router's NAT table, and thus memory. Existing outgoing connections continued to work, but any new connections were DOA.