[AWS] Question: Can opening more than the number of allowed sessions break aws?

Pascal Obry p.obry@wanadoo.fr
Sun, 7 Jul 2002 16:05:33 +0200


Florian Weimer writes:
 > Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:
 > 
 > > Ok, but how an UPD connection can be accepted by an TCP/IP protocol ?
 > > Is that possible ?
 > 
 > It's called "UDP", and it's a connection-less networking protocol.

I know, it was a typo :)

 > Unless the IP stack is completely broken, these two things are
 > completely separate if you ignore that both probably share the same
 > link (and bandwidth-consuming attacks can saturate it).

That was my thinking too. Thanks.

Pascal.

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