At 20:09 2000-11-16 +0000, you wrote: >Is there no way to shape incoming traffic? With any kernel version, or >even by rewriting the networking code? I understand the difficulties, and >the reasons why outgoing shaping is simple at the low-level but incoming >shaping is not done even at the high-level, but what about this? Use the >TCP window field to restrict the rate of data transfer (not worrying about >the details right now; just the general feasibility). (This is for a >single box, rather than for a box on a network which has a separate router >to shape its traffic.) If a node were to consistently violate the window, >it could be blocked until the administrator fixed the problem at that >node. (This is intended for thsoe who do not intend to violate the >policies of the server, rather than those who may wish to do so >maliciously.) > >I'd just like some pointers and hints for this...it seems workable to me. >But if there is another way, or *any* way, I'd rather pursue that before >the TCP way so I can see which is better. I'm simply discouraged by the >fact that no one seems to have tried this before, while it seems a >painfully obvious way to do it to me, so I wonder what I'm missing >conceptually. Try http://freshmeat.net/projects/rshaper/?highlight=rshaper for rshaper. I haven't tried it myself, but they use a metod where they delay the notification of received packets to the sending host.
