Comments on: Half-Open Patcher Speeds Up BitTorrent Downloads http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/04/half-open-patcher-speeds-up-bittorrent-downloads/ tips and downloads to help you at work and play Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:14:26 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: kluelos http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/04/half-open-patcher-speeds-up-bittorrent-downloads/comment-page-1/#comment-7359 kluelos Tue, 05 May 2009 04:34:33 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=333586#comment-7359 The reason MS issued the fix is to slow SYN floods down so much that they become unworkable. The attackers are not looking for security holes, but for legitimate access points like web servers. They're trying to tie up all of the SUA's available sockets. It's not an attempt to infect, it's a denial of service attack. The limitation, and the patch, determine how quickly you can start new connections to others in the swarm, which would be connections initiated by your client -- local initiations. The best, fastest connections, the ones we all try for, and fuss with routers, port-forwarding and firewalls in order to get, are remote initiations. None of this can affect remote initiations at all. The reason MS issued the fix is to slow SYN floods down so much that they become unworkable. The attackers are not looking for security holes, but for legitimate access points like web servers. They’re trying to tie up all of the SUA’s available sockets. It’s not an attempt to infect, it’s a denial of service attack.

The limitation, and the patch, determine how quickly you can start new connections to others in the swarm, which would be connections initiated by your client — local initiations.

The best, fastest connections, the ones we all try for, and fuss with routers, port-forwarding and firewalls in order to get, are remote initiations. None of this can affect remote initiations at all.

]]> By: Transviloquist http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/04/half-open-patcher-speeds-up-bittorrent-downloads/comment-page-1/#comment-6558 Transviloquist Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:42:16 +0000 http://www.lifehacker.com.au/?p=333586#comment-6558 Thanks ! Downloads hit top speed instantly, insofar as I can tell top speed also appears to be up by roughly 30%, no other side affects apparent at this time. Thanks ! Downloads hit top speed instantly, insofar as I can tell top speed also appears to be up by roughly 30%, no other side affects apparent at this time.

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