Re: [nsp] rate-limit flows per user in dynamic env.

From: Dan Debertin (airboss@bitstream.net)
Date: Wed Mar 07 2001 - 16:32:17 EST


On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Thomas Kernen wrote:
>
> My problem is the fact that the IP and/or MAC address is unknown, the
> rest is trivial.

Thomas,
        You need some way of identifying this user or group of users. If
IP address and MAC address are unavailable to you as identifiers, are
there any other characteristics that could be used to identify the user,
such as destination address?

If there aren't, it's going to be pretty much impossible to traffic-shape
this user individually, although doing something global is still an
option.

What sort of situation is this? DSL? Ethernet? More specifics....

Dan Debertin

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