ipfw deprecation

joerg at britannica.bec.de joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Jun 29 06:50:56 PDT 2006


On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 10:19:08AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     What about the 'pipe' stuff?  Being able to control packet rates 
>     and bandwidth is something I use with IPFW all the time.

BTW, control of packet rates can be somewhat done with max-src-nodes and
max options. They place a limit on the upper number of states a source
address can create or states at all.

Joerg





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