Packet rate limiter

Jan Sebosik sebosik at demax.sk
Wed Feb 7 10:08:55 UTC 2007


Hmm,

but if have done traffic shaping via bps limit. But I also wanted to 
limit packet rate, because P2P and skype uses small packets, but in high 
volumes....And it will stop P2P and Skype if I set on 512 kbps 40 
packets/s [pps]



>  Newp. You're stuck to good old bps with ipfw or bps/cpse (connections 
> per second established) with pf. The other method would be to use 
> cisco netflow export data from a router being polled - then limiting 
> traffic with one of the methods mentioned above... or just place pps 
> limits on your router itself.
>
>
> Jan Sebosik wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> is there any way how to limit packet per second [PPS] rate to 
>> specified IP (group of IP) ? Linux can achieve this via IPtables.
>> I`ve searched a lot of web, but nothing interesting found (for PF, 
>> IPFilter, and IPFW).
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> ---
>> Jan Sebosik, Slovakia
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