[OmegaZero_Alpha]

thread derail*
It's been ages since I did anything truly indepth network related, and the Glendfiddich is kicked in, but don't most home routers (assuming it's like a WRT54G or something just common) have a TCP connection limit? I'm assuming most ISP's block TCP ACK/SYN attacks, but what if it's on an established port (e.g. TF2, though I cant remember if the TCP ports are used for the client beyond first connect) or something common (e.g. torrents, faceyspaces, whatever the kids these days are using)?

Assuming the program was caching or processing all of the malicious packets it could bog down his computer significantly, but even then the program would simply crash, worst case his computer crashes altogether.

I know that you can connect as many connections as you want through a WRT54G and it will still function normally, because the connection limit for windows is much lower than the router can handle. Maybe if the guy had about 12 devices and each one of them were being targeted separately, but once again there is no way to target a device itself except through the software's external port, and as I mentioned above it would simply crash the program or device.

Attacking a router or a modem directly seems really complicated and contrived if all the person wanted to do was mess with the guy.