[LARTC] Shaping Incoming Traffic

[John Anthony Kazos Jr. programmer@vt.edu]

<PRE>Is there no way to shape incoming traffic? With any kernel version, or
even by rewriting the networking code? I understand the difficulties, and
the reasons why outgoing shaping is simple at the low-level but incoming
shaping is not done even at the high-level, but what about this? Use the
TCP window field to restrict the rate of data transfer (not worrying about
the details right now; just the general feasibility). (This is for a
single box, rather than for a box on a network which has a separate router
to shape its traffic.) If a node were to consistently violate the window,
it could be blocked until the administrator fixed the problem at that
node. (This is intended for thsoe who do not intend to violate the
policies of the server, rather than those who may wish to do so
maliciously.)

I'd just like some pointers and hints for this...it seems workable to me.
But if there is another way, or *any* way, I'd rather pursue that before
the TCP way so I can see which is better. I'm simply discouraged by the
fact that no one seems to have tried this before, while it seems a
painfully obvious way to do it to me, so I wonder what I'm missing
conceptually.



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