On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Stephan A. Rickauer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 12:14 +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
>> * jmc <[email protected]> [2009-03-11 15:05]:
>> > so anyway, how are _you_ using probability?
>>
>> it's high on my list of useless features in pf I'd rather remove.
>> if anybody is actually using it, I'd like to hear about it.
>
> Once in a while a re-spot this 'feature' in the man pages and find it
> very cool. But then I can't come up with any idea of how to use it
> sanely. Could that be a case of 'uselessness'? ;)
>
> (never had to simulate bad lines so far, have enough of real ones)
>
Artur's use of throwing a spanner into the works of anybody who has
been blacklisted seems like a very good use case. I would use it that
way too. As opposed to outright blocking ("100%"), or outright
dropping, it makes it harder for them to think that they have been
found out. If you drop or block outright, that just means that they
will simply jump onto another different ip. I imagine they would call
up their own ISP, do network troubleshooting, blah blah, before they
conclude that it is you that is really causing the problem.
-jf
--
In the meantime, here is your PSA:
"It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help."
-- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation
http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228
