> Hari:
>
> I think you are going to find that rate-limiting at the box won't
> provide any fiscal relief.  The packets have already traversed your
> ISP's interface where the accounting is taking place.
>
> Mike

That's bad. But if the machine doesn't accept more than N packets/sec,
why would the ISP router forward any more packets to it? I wouldn't
know the internals, but isn't there any kind of flow control in the
protocol?

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Hari Bhaskaran

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