* Ted Unangst <[email protected]> [2015-03-25 16:36]: > 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... :)
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