Napster at MSU?

[Jeremy Bowers]

Yeah, that makes sense too.

I'd tended to assume that since Napster users show their bandwidth, MSU
users would all show as T1+ and all the modem users would tend to gravitate
here, while MSU users would only download normal quantities of MP3's.
Meanwhile, real incoming traffic has a hard time getting through.  Still...
something is amiss and I don't have enough info.

Unfortunately, we can't check.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Zac Cogswell" <cogswell@msu.edu>
To: "Jeremy Bowers" <bowersj2@msu.edu>; <linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: Napster at MSU?


>
> >
> >- I can't _prove_ it is Napster, all I'm saying is that based on the
> >experiences of other Universities, it is a likely explanation.  If it
ISN'T
> >Napster, I _still_ want to know what it is.
>
>
> Its possible that there are a bunch of "0wn3d" machines on campus that are
> being used as zombies in DDOS attacks... which would also explain why the
> outgoing bandwidth is a lot higher than the incoming, when in the rest of
> the  graphs, they are about even. I think they would be closer if it was
> due to napster (about the same amount of ppl serving mp3's to leeching).
>
> Just another possible explanation...
>
> Zac Cogswell
> cogswell@msu.edu
>
>