From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damion de Soto Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:28:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Limit packets per second Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org 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, -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damion de Soto - Software Engineer email: damion@snapgear.com SnapGear - A CyberGuard Company --- ph: +61 7 3435 2809 | Custom Embedded Solutions fax: +61 7 3891 3630 | and Security Appliances web: http://www.snapgear.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --- Free Embedded Linux Distro at http://www.snapgear.org --- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/