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Date:      Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:23:40 -0600
From:      Hari Bhaskaran <subscr@spider.netmails.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter
Message-ID:  <20030103172340.A84630@spider.netmails.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0301031425590.75972-100000@isber.ucsb.edu>; from randall@ucsb.edu on Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:29:10PM -0800
References:  <20030103154939.A84120@spider.netmails.net> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0301031425590.75972-100000@isber.ucsb.edu>

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> Hari:
>
> I think you are going to find that rate-limiting at the box won't
> provide any fiscal relief.  The packets have already traversed your
> ISP's interface where the accounting is taking place.
>
> Mike

That's bad. But if the machine doesn't accept more than N packets/sec,
why would the ISP router forward any more packets to it? I wouldn't
know the internals, but isn't there any kind of flow control in the
protocol?

-- 
Hari Bhaskaran

(Mike, although I have cc-ed the list
I haven't included your email
anywhere in the reply)

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