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

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <14790000.1026803266@localhost> (at Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:07:46 
+0200), Peter Bieringer <pb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

> > Is introducing /proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/all/icmpv6_time reasonable?
> 
> Is HZ completly arch independed? Afair, it was CPU depended (like
> grep HZ include/asm/param.h) shows.

We already have proc_dointvec_jiffies().
We can use it to make that sysctl be arch independent.


> Mho: Better name:
> 
> /proc/sys/net/ipv6/icmp/all/icmpv6_rate
> 
> I would suggest use of unit 1/s and run conversion internally.
> Therfore
> 1 -> 1/s
> 10 -> 10/s
> 100 -> 100/s
> 0.1 -> 1/10s

ah, ipv4 uses /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_*_rate,
icmpv6_rate sounds reasonable.

--yoshfuji