Re: [PATCH] IPv6: Sysctl for ICMPv6 Rate Limitation

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / [iso-2022-jp] 吉藤英明 wrote:
> This patch add sysctl for icmp6 rate limit.
> This patch is against 2.4.20-pre11 (see below).

...

> +icmp/*:
> +ratelimit - INTEGER
> +     Limit the maximal rates for sending ICMPv6 packets.
> +     0 to disable any limiting, otherwise the maximal rate in jiffies(1)
> +     Default: 100
> +

Does this rate-limit all ICMPv6 packets or just ICMPv6 error messages (as 
specified in ICMPv6 specifications).

If all, I believe the default of rate-limiting everything is unacceptable.

Note that in the patch does not seem to add the rate-limit sysctl to any 
functions -- was that to happen in some other patch?

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