Joe Touch wrote on 26/11/2018 21:59:
Rate limiting is quite different from 100% discards. When abuse
happens, it's clearly safe to react.
data plane speeds are measured in terabits/sec. Control plane capacity
for dealing with punted packets is measured in kilobits. As end user
and data plane speeds increase, rate-limiting for problematic packets
will tend towards towards 100% loss.
It doesn't matter if your packet stream is subject to 20% loss, or 100%,
or 100% for 20% of the time - beyond a certain point, the end user
experience will languish in an indistinguishable morass of unusability.
Nick
