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Re: ICMPv6 ratelimiting, which /proc-settings related?

To: Peter Bieringer <pb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ICMPv6 ratelimiting, which /proc-settings related?
From: Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:49:19 +0200
Cc: Maillist netdev <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 09:57:46AM +0200, Peter Bieringer wrote:

> extending my IPv6-howto with information about the /proc-FS I found
> that there is no setting for ICMPv6 rate limiting.
> 
> But in "ipv6/icmp.c" there are some " if (net_ratelimit())" calls.
> 
> How can this limit be controlled? Is it the
>         "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ratelimit"
> switch?

no, the net_ratelimit() is a generic function to limit the rate of
printk()'s to prevent syslog flooding...

> TIA,
>  Peter

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