The Microsoft implementation limits to two errors per second, just for this reason.
Rich > -----Original Message----- > From: Lori Napoli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 6:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ICMPv6 rate limiting factor > > > RFC 2463 states that it is a MUST to limit the rate of ICMPv6 > error messages that are sent. Traceroute is a utility that > relies on ICMP error messages. One of the parameters for > traceroute is the number of probes > that are sent for each hopcount. RFC 2463 gives an example > of 1 second as > a conservative default if timer based rate limiting was > implemented. If > this is used, traceroute won't receive a reply for each > probe if multiple probes are sent for each hopcount since > some will be supressed due to the rate limiting factor. What > are other implementations doing in regard to ICMPv6 rate limits? > > Thanks > Lori > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
