28 Jun
2022
28 Jun
'22
6:47 p.m.
On Jun 28, 2022, at 05:36, Rob Pike
<robpike(a)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