[44net] storm

I'm been seeing rather a storm of incoming packets to the amprgw gateway; there are six times as many inbound packets to routable AMPRNet addresses as outbound. The firewall is doing its duty: in the last about 24 hours it's discarded 9,905,154,331 incoming packets as being from bad guys, and of the packets that did get past the badguy list, 24,974,234,978 were discarded. It's running around 30 MB/s, at about 20 million packets a minute. Looking at the incoming traffic, it appears to be mostly TCP connection requests with large window sizes to varying 44.x.x.x addresses, with lots of different destination port numbers but many are to port 23 (TELNET) and port 80 (HTTP). There's a goodly number of UDP requests to port 53 (DNS) too. The system seems to be about 85% idle. - Brian