[mrtg] Re: off topic CISCO

[Dan Swartzendruber]

At 01:48 PM 3/26/00 -0600, [Krell] wrote:

>OK this is way out in left field of MRTG subject, but I thought I'd ask
>anyway...here goes
>
>what is the fair size of the packets to drop? As in tcp packets bigger
>than 8k or udp packets bigger than 8k or even icmp packets bigger than 8k
>or what?  How do you about evaluating??

You don't.  The queueing mechanism does.  Since this policy is being 
applied at the interface, I believe the packet size is the interface packet 
size.  e.g. the MTU.

>And should the packets be dropped at my connection(s) to the internet or
>should they be dropped/filtered on the client end.  And if they are
>dropped at my internet connection...will that protect the rest of my
>clients?

Always drop them before sending (if possible).  Why waste the 
bandwidth?  It will certainly minimized bandwidth wasted by excess usage.

>I'm just getting crazy processloads now a days..it'll stay at 5-7% and all
>the suddent it will shoot up to 68%+...I can coordinate the attacks with a
>client of mine and we filter out the class c it comes from and the
>processor load goes down.



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