[TUHS] Research Datakit notes

Rich Morin rdm at cfcl.com
Tue Jun 28 22:47:11 AEST 2022


> On Jun 28, 2022, at 05:36, Rob Pike <robpike at 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



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