Stuart Henderson wrote:
> No, queuing incoming packets was never supported.
> 
> What are you going to do with them anyway? You can't stop the other
> device on the network from sending to you.

But you could create back pressure. I may want to prevent all my inbound
bandwidth from being consumed by somebody uploading a large file, but most web
servers are designed to slurp the traffic in as quickly as possible. Dropping
the occasional inbound packet would cause the sender to backoff. What's a
better way to accomplish this?

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