Dropped packets

I love the little snapgear router that I have.  Over the weekend I had some free time so I was cleaning up some issues with my linux server and I discovered that I could export the log from the snapgear to the linux box.  Now I get daily reports of the dropped packets.
By far the most common packets are udp packets directed at 1026.  This is apparently related to MSN messenger.  Apparently the source of udp packets are very easy to spoof so I didn’t bother trying to locate any of them. The other one that I just started seeing in quantity are tcp packets to 7212.  This is a port used by limewire and related p2p networks.  Apparently most of these actually originate in China but for me I found one in Australia and one in South Korea.

Listened to another edition of DotNetRocks. This one with Frank Savage talking .net on the XBox 360. Maybe this will be my next development platform. It is pretty scary how much horsepower these machines have now that .Net might become the game development platform of choice.

The XNA is something I am planning to look into.

Back in the saddle

I have said it before and I am sure hat I will say it again but I am back trying to consistently generate some content here.  This burst of inspiration from listening to Jeff Atwood (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/) on dot net Rocks.