On 2015/03/25 11:12, Ted Unangst wrote: > 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?
When you are forwarding packets to another system, you can create that back pressure by dropping the output packets. (Of course this relies on using TCP or some other protocol which backs off in the presence of packet loss).
