Stuart Henderson wrote: > 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).
Some of us don't have another system to forward the packets to... :)
