It's not the pings, it's the constant unending streams of connects to TCP ports and probes of UDP ports that we're encapsulating and relaying through that I want to avoid burdening 'innocent' people with.
Despite all our filtering, I do get complaints from people whose firewalls are too sensitive and too verbose. They typically don't really know what they're complaining about, they just know that their firewall told them something bad was happening. Worse, one of those products thinks it's being helpful and looks up and displays the 'abuse@ucsd.edu' address, and those people then file complaints with our campus network security people, which I then have to answer. Even if we had our own ASN, I'd still have to answer the complaints. This I don't need.
And besides, it's fun to write new code. Creeping featurism? Perhaps. - Brian
On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 03:59:51PM +0000, R P wrote:
no one get exited those days from few pings to his router (i mean routers that connected to the internet via DSL or fiber optic or cable(not via 1200 baud link))