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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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