>>>>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:59:06 -0500,
>>>>> "Lori Napoli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> RFC 2463 states that it is a MUST to limit the rate of ICMPv6 error
> messages that are sent. Traceroute is a utility that relies on ICMP error
> messages. One of the parameters for traceroute is the number of probes
> that are sent for each hopcount. RFC 2463 gives an example of 1 second as
> a conservative default if timer based rate limiting was implemented. If
> this is used, traceroute won't receive a reply for each probe if multiple
> probes are sent for each hopcount since some will be supressed due to the
> rate limiting factor. What are other implementations doing in regard to
> ICMPv6 rate limits?
As itojun mentioned (in a different context), the KAME/BSD
implementation does the rate limitation on packet-per-sec basis. By
default the implementation allows 100 icmp6 errors per second.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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