From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 3 15:24:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B289D37B401 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:24:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from spider.netmails.net (dsl-65-189-239-65.telocity.com [65.189.239.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFBE843EE5 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:24:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from subscr@spider.netmails.net) Received: (qmail 84789 invoked by uid 1014); 3 Jan 2003 23:23:40 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 17:23:40 -0600 From: Hari Bhaskaran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: incoming bandwidth limiting using ipfilter Message-ID: <20030103172340.A84630@spider.netmails.net> References: <20030103154939.A84120@spider.netmails.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from randall@ucsb.edu on Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:29:10PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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