Aug 12
SP2 fuck your P2P in the anus?
This page will help you extend or completely disable the “feature” of only ten outbound incomplete TCP/IP connections. Unfortunately, it still won’t fix nmap, since nobody’s figured out how to re-enable raw sockets. Rest assured that if I run into a patch for raw sockets I will also post it here.
Let me clarify a bit:
I am completely aware that this limitation shouldn’t affect modern P2P systems. Nevertheless, I have seen post after post from people whose P2P was broken by SP2 and restored via this patch. Sherlock Holmes’ basic principle would seem to apply in these situations.
I am also aware that limiting incomplete outgoing TCP/IP is designed to bottleneck worm traffic. However, I don’t think those folks like myself who have never ever gotten a worm (and thanks to being ridiculously anal about security, probably never will) should have to deal with the fallout from this modification.
Please don’t go rampantly installing this unless you have noticed lots of 4226 errors in your event log or are having P2P problems and can’t solve it any other way.