Re: Needing state in NTLMSSP

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: 17 Jan 2003 07:02:04 +1100

On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 02:12, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> Having the helpers sit idle only because they are blocked by a client
> thinking about how to send the auth packet is a big waste, and very
> easily ends up in a DoS condition where all helpers are made busy unless
> the number of helpers is exessively large (in the range of thousands).

We don't do this today, and I'd be very much against any change that put
us back into that situation.

Rob

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