From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Payam Chychi <pchychi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Are limit and hashlimit "limited"?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 16:01:37 -0700
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Klaubert Herr da Silveira <klaubert@gmail.com>, "netfilter@vger.kernel.org" <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>

just found it...

my initial question back in 2008: 
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.general/35045
white paper on the issue: 
http://people.netfilter.org/acidfu/papers/limit-tbf-analysis.pdf

Cheers
-Payam



On 12-05-14 3:53 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2012-05-15 00:45, Payam Chychi wrote:
>
>> limit and hashlimit have never worked properly, one reason being the
>> system bus speed.
> Can you actually *back up that statement*?