2011-12-06, 09:44 AM
I wasn't referring to Nexon doing it. Frankly Nexon is very unlikely to be doing packet inspection for the simple fact their games should be handling received packets, not an additional layer.
Run a traceroute to any destination.
Every hop on that list could be inspecting the traffic that passes through it, whether it's intended to 'end' there or not.
SPI is very resource intensive so it's not something likely to be "on" every node you pass through, but if you follow a consistent path for months and one node in that path suddenly starts inspecting packets it can increase the latency in a manner consistent to the sudden tiny increase we've seen.
Run a traceroute to any destination.
Every hop on that list could be inspecting the traffic that passes through it, whether it's intended to 'end' there or not.
SPI is very resource intensive so it's not something likely to be "on" every node you pass through, but if you follow a consistent path for months and one node in that path suddenly starts inspecting packets it can increase the latency in a manner consistent to the sudden tiny increase we've seen.
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