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From: Todd Graham Lewis <lists@reflections.mindspring.com>
To: Alfy <sricca@worldcom.ch>
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Subject: Re: BoS: ping flood
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On Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Alfy wrote:

> 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 ? 

Disconnect from the network.

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