From sricca@worldcom.ch  Sun Sep 15 10:04:57 1996
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From: Alfy <sricca@worldcom.ch>
Subject: ping flood

hello do you people know if there's a way for a system admin to prevent ping
floods from faster machines and which may cause a hudge slowdown of the
connection ? 
thank you 
alfy

