[LARTC] Limit packets per second

[LARTC] Limit packets per second

[Luciano Lima]

Hi all,

Is there a way to create a class that limits the amount of packets of 
any rule in a period ( like pps ) ?
Some aplications like game servers, send so much little udp packets to 
the clients that the router cpu gets exausted, even with relative low 
bandwidith usage.

Any idea ?

Luciano

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Re: [LARTC] Limit packets per second

[Damion de Soto]

Luciano Lima wrote:
> Is there a way to create a class that limits the amount of packets of 
> any rule in a period ( like pps ) ?
> Some aplications like game servers, send so much little udp packets to 
> the clients that the router cpu gets exausted, even with relative low 
> bandwidith usage.
If it doesn't mess up your existing QoS ruleset, you can rate limit
packets just using iptables instead:
-m limit --limit 10/s

limit v1.2.7a options:
--limit avg                     max average match rate: default 3/hour
                                 [Packets per second unless followed by
                                 /sec /minute /hour /day postfixes]
--limit-burst number            number to match in a burst, default 5



regards,

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