Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Question on remote snooping.

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 21:58:56 -0800
> Well, worst case the CPU/bandwidth will 'throttle' the connection.  Just
> cause the user can screw things up doesn't make it bad, eh?  Think
> how useful ping is, and how deadly ping -f is :)

I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying one shouldn't assume that a
remote-snooping daemon will never see its own packets....