> > What is the "use case" of this addition? Is this objective to limit the > mischief > on a certain port, for example ntp or port 53? > > I can appreciate the need to limit the number of packets during, say a DDOS > event, but I'm struggling with why I would want less that 1 packet per second. > The original propose is "packet per second", I met this kind of requirement , for example ,if you network appliance want to support 10 queries per second, then you cannot use dummynet because the query packets are not fixed size.
> Is the idea of pps meant to remove the need of dummynet where it is used > in almost trivial cases? Though if this were the case, then bps (bits per > second) may be more useful? > So in the beginning , the option is named “PPS”, and it accepts only 1 parameter. But Luigi said “10 per second” is different from “1 per 100 ms” and “1 per 100 ms” should be better! > Dewayne. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ipfw To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ipfw-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
