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From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Research Datakit notes
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:47:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0CA3B3AA-6491-47A5-843D-CDF2F3A74659@cfcl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgwg4x54Putd5TwUmh_zkpxW=YX42xeANN9N1_+3AHfHLA@mail.gmail.com>

> On Jun 28, 2022, at 05:36, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am not a networking expert. I said that already. The issue could well be a property more of sockets than TCP/IP itself, but having the switch do some of the call validation and even maybe authentication (I'm not sure...) sounds like it takes load off the host.

Some years ago, we set up a front end email server to reject incoming message attempts that didn't match our list of valid users.  This resulted in a better then 90% reduction.

-r


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-28 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-25 23:01 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-25 23:09 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-06-25 23:57   ` Rob Pike
2022-06-26  1:17     ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-07-02  2:51       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2022-07-02  2:57         ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-28 10:38     ` Derek Fawcus
2022-06-28 12:36       ` Rob Pike
2022-06-28 12:45         ` Rob Pike
2022-06-28 13:33           ` Dan Cross
2022-06-28 21:19             ` Lawrence Stewart
2022-06-28 21:34               ` Richard Salz
2022-06-29  6:07                 ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-06-28 16:11           ` Tom Teixeira
2022-06-28 18:28           ` John Floren
2022-06-28 12:47         ` Rich Morin [this message]
2022-06-28 13:13           ` Marc Donner
2022-06-28 14:41             ` Clem Cole
2022-06-28 15:54               ` Tom Teixeira
2022-06-28 17:05             ` Adam Thornton
2022-06-28 17:43               ` John Labovitz
2022-06-28 22:45               ` [TUHS] HTTP (was Re: Re: Research Datakit notes) Derek Fawcus
2022-06-26  1:41 ` [TUHS] Re: Research Datakit notes Anthony Martin
2022-06-26  9:52   ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-06-26 11:04   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-29 20:21   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-26  2:19 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-26  9:46 ` steve jenkin
2022-06-26 20:35   ` Erik Fair
2022-06-26 21:53     ` Steve Jenkin
2022-06-26 10:16 ` Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-06-26 13:07 ` John Cowan
2022-06-26 13:35   ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-26 13:58     ` John Cowan
2022-06-27  0:43 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-27  3:00 ` Erik Fair
2022-06-27 21:40 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-27 22:40 ` George Michaelson
2022-06-28 15:50 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-28 21:32 ` Lawrence Stewart

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