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Any of you have netgear routers? They have a flawed SNTP (clock synchronization) implementation that floods U-Wisc networks with hundreds of megabits per second of traffic. 700,000 products try to contact U-Wisc's NTP server at up to once per second.
Here's the relavant part of a long article:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/#ToC20
If you have a Netgear or know someone who does, help out U-W by downloading the latest firmware release! Download section at www.netgear.com.
Any of you have netgear routers? They have a flawed SNTP (clock synchronization) implementation that floods U-Wisc networks with hundreds of megabits per second of traffic. 700,000 products try to contact U-Wisc's NTP server at up to once per second.
Here's the relavant part of a long article:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~plonka/netgear-sntp/#ToC20
If you have a Netgear or know someone who does, help out U-W by downloading the latest firmware release! Download section at www.netgear.com.