[OLPC Networking] Issues with the wireless mesh devices

[info at olpc-peru.info]

Some ideas:

a) Google and other intense information providers have set up their 
servers to refuse "too many" requests from the same user in a short 
period of time.
b) "filtering" (nat or caching software) will be a tool to do the same 
not only with http but with all the TCP/IP protocols.
c) If a pair of XOs turn down an AP... it is an "internal" DOS.  But, in 
my humble opinion, I wont call it a DOS because there is no intentional 
attack to the server. 

Regards,

Javier

Kim Hawtin wrote:
> info at olpc-peru.info wrote:
>   
>> Kim wrote: "...The network admin guys are quiet concerned about the DDOS possibilities."
>>
>> I comment,
>>
>> Hi Kim,
>>
>> I am very intested in the networking issue... because I am mounting a small lab to emulate
>> the enviroment of the XOs & Acces Point & wireless work...
>>
>> About DDOS:
>>
>> At the end of this message the definition of a DDOS (distributed Denial of Service Attack... for those that need to know)
>>     
>
> Given that a pair of XOs shut down the local access point and the AP on the
> other end of the backbone link connected to the local AP there was more than
> enough justification to do extra digging.
>
> If some one was malicious enough to find a number of backbone nodes on the WAN
> then you see the problem here.
>
> Internet connected or not, the DoS problems remain. Your or my definition of
> DDos is not relevant in the big scheme of things, until the problem is better
> understood.
>
> regards,
>
> Kim
>
>
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