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Re:IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree by paulddraper on Thursday December 15, 2016 @12:52PM (#13186506)
> As it turns out inviting the entire internet to ping my IP address might not be the best idea I ever had... Bandwidth is regularly maxing out at 300Mbit/s of incoming ICMPv6 traffic

Oh, boy. I'm impressed it's still working.

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Re:IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree by avian on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:06PM (#13186644)
I very much suspect that a lot of those ping6 packets are ignored.

At 300 Mbit/s that would be around 400000 pings per second or less than 3 μs/flash. At that speed the camera would not register individual flashes.

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Re:IPv6 enabled Christmas Tree by nabaffyub on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:10PM (#13186680)
If his connection is actually saturated, he's more likely being packeted by someone trying to have fun.
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