The router in question is a Netgear 8 port on a 3 Mb cable IP connection. No ports forwarded into my LAN. The numbers of Syn packets given in my original post was an extremely conservative number, based on what was caught in my logs. There were several thousand (10's ?) more -not- caught. How many t...

Well, Osc, you're quite right in what you say, of course....as far as it goes. As I pointed out in the next sentence, however, there is a lot more my logs -didn't- catch. I'll send you a PM with some additional details. But my question still stands....does a server really need to hit close to 100 po...

This applies to irc.lightning.net (irc.he.net). I haven't tried others. Every time I connect, I am FLOODED by (at last connect - but very close to same on ALL connects) 553 syn packets to 63 individual ports. (and that's just what my log was able to catch - probably a lot more it didn't catch.) Isn'...