FW: Napster at MSU?

[Zac Cogswell]

>My point:  DON'T DO PORTSCANS ON THE ENTIRE MSU NETWORK!!!! If you think
>that say 100 people running napster (maybe lots more, maybe less) is causing
>bandwidth problems, think what would happen if everyone decided to start
>portscanning to "help" out Doug and others at network services. Yes I am
>very interested in the results, and REALLY want to see them, but if we all
>do our own tests we will probably be shot by the people at network services.


Heh, I wasn't planning on actually doing the tests, but scanning all the 
subnets for port 6635 (i think that is napster's port) would use less 
bandwidth than 1 mp3 being transferred on napster - and that would be only 
local bandwidth, not on the connection to Merit, and it would take less 
than 10 minutes to scan all MSU's subnets - I don't think we use the entire 
class A :)


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