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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iptables limit --limit limitations
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 18:33:55 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20080531T183021-215@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LNX.1.10.0805261319140.19084@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh <at> medozas.de> writes:

> It is known that the algorithm in limit and hashlimit are not quite 
> accurate. Though, we seem to be out of solutions, too.

Here is a paper on it here:
 http://people.netfilter.org/acidfu/papers/limit-tbf-analysis.pdf

I don't know if the solution proposed has been implemented (and accepted
upstream)???

Cheers,
 Jesper Brouer


      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-31 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-17  7:20 iptables limit --limit limitations Payam Chychi
2008-05-26 11:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-31 18:33   ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]

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