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Old 05-01-2016, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Zaela [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
The eqemu login server deliberately ignores these out-of-order requests from the client, presumably because it would be a relatively cheap and easy DoS vector. When that happens, the client gets cranky and starts flagging every packet it gets from then on as "out of order", and nothing gets done.
Didn't know this... Though I doubt it would/could be used to DoS if it was fixed with that in mind. Regardless, it's nice to know.

I bet someone could set up a better login server that mirrors the eqemu server's data and corrects out of order packets.
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