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by pktgen 13y ago
Go is advertised as a systems language but certain things like the lack of manual memory management say otherwise.
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by pktgen 13y ago
Would love to hear the answer to this as well. For the types of thing C is used for, I do not know of another language that can _practically_ be used for the same thing, while maintaining the same level of performance. Rust looks promising
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by pktgen 13y ago
> And in other words, nobody should be writing anything in C. Ever. And in other words, nobody should be listening to thrownaway2424. Ever.
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by pktgen 13y ago
Nah. Telecom lowering their price? LOL. Normal businesses when their costs go down: since we're in a competitive market, we'll use this as a competitive advantage and lower our prices to match Telecoms in the same: "we'r
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by pktgen 13y ago
The whole point is they're trying to have it both ways. They want to benefit from other people's work freely (that's why they're accepting pull requests), but do not want to let others benefit from their work in the same
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by pktgen 13y ago
Love the double dipping. "GitHub can profit off your code, but you can't do anything with it and have no rights to it!"
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by pktgen 13y ago
> Comcast seems unlikely to try to steal your bank password I don't know about that. Comcast doesn't seem to have any problem robbing its customers right now.
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by pktgen 13y ago
Yeah, this is what I was thinking. elementaryOS seems to get the closest but still isn't ideal. I have to think about it. Thanks. I use Linux on servers, but I've always found the options lacking in some way for desktop.
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by pktgen 13y ago
Just curious, what Linux distro is everyone switching to? At this point I am seriously considering it, because this is pathetic. (I suspect I'll remain with Apple hardware for the foreseeable future, because they still have the best la
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by pktgen 13y ago
Ideally that last mile network would be point-to-point FTTP though, eliminating this entire issue.
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by pktgen 13y ago
Expect this number to rise in the near future as Comcast Netflix traffic moves to IPv6: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29057080-
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by pktgen 13y ago
> Really? That's a special kind of evil and should be illegal. Nah, no need to make it illegal. He's referring to AT&T's "GigaPower" gigabit service in Austin... the same service that's available from 2
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by pktgen 13y ago
Definitely. I am not sure what metrics Solarflare beat others (presumably including Intel) on, besides software support (OpenOnload implements the BSD sockets API and doesn't require software changes, while DPDK and others implement th
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by pktgen 13y ago
They do. They use Solarflare's OpenOnload: http://blog.cloudflare.com/a-tour-inside-cloudflares-latest-...
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by pktgen 13y ago
I would be very, very, very careful here. Not sure what country you're in, but you're setting yourself up for possible legal action, even though your intentions are good.
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by pktgen 13y ago
> 1. Data Plane Development Kit, which lets you skip the kernel IP stack (which takes thousands of CPU cycles to process) and do packet processing in userland taking just tens to hundreds of cycles per packet. http://dpdk.org&
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by pktgen 13y ago
UBNT is correct, but only for the hardware fast path. The driver for that appears to be proprietary.
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by pktgen 13y ago
UBNT's numbers are using the hardware fast path, which presumably is not supported by this project.
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by pktgen 13y ago
> Look at it this way. Without Cloudflare providing free DDOS mitigation, the attacks would not be happening as frequently. I don't see the cost of CloudFlare's service as a problem. In fact, free DDoS mitigation is great. The
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by pktgen 13y ago
I'm not and have never been a CloudFlare customer. My experience with them stems from hosting game servers and dealing with many DDoS incidents, nearly all of which originated from CloudFlare-"supported" (I would like to use
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by pktgen 13y ago
Sure, you can _send_ spoofed packets from any host, but any reputable host will drop them. Reputable hosts use uRPF or at least an ACL at their edge to drop any outbound traffic with a source address that isn't in their network. People
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by pktgen 13y ago
Firesheep is a poor comparison. It's a piece of software. The developer (or his associates) do not provide a product or service to protect against it, which would be a requirement to be considered racketeering. (Even if they were offer
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by pktgen 13y ago
For something that threatens the very infrastructure CloudFlare operates their business on, I disagree. Also, CloudFlare is not an essential service nor are they a monopoly. So if CloudFlare goes too far with something, it's not a prob
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by pktgen 13y ago
Except CloudFlare only provides "basic DDoS mitigation" on their plans under $200/mo.
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by pktgen 13y ago
And here's what CloudFlare isn't telling you: many DDoS attacks are made possible thanks to their service, openly providing service (they would dispute my use of the word "hosting") to booters. This is called racketeerin
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by pktgen 13y ago
I agree with you. Having sent multiple abuse complaints to CloudFlare regarding booters, I have found them difficult to work with. As we've established, they will not censor anything; instead, if they determine your complaint to have s
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by pktgen 13y ago
Hosts that negligently allow (do not implement technical measures to block) packets to be sent from an IP address not routed to the sender. Ecatel is the big one here. I don't know what it will take for their upstreams to shut them dow
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by pktgen 13y ago
This is easier than you think. Most of these kids have no clue what they're actually doing and link their personal identities with the name they use. I run (as a hobby) some game servers and have handled several DDoS incidents. Out of
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by pktgen 13y ago
Why do taxes have to be spread out everywhere? Why not just have an income tax and sales tax, or maybe only one (I've heard arguments for both sides, but don't want to get into that debate) to cover all this? It's the same th
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by pktgen 13y ago
Obviously such rules wouldn't automatically be in place; they'd have to explicitly be requested. And yes, it is a reasonable request to ask your upstream to add a few ACL lines.

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