Michael T. Babcock wrote:
Has anyone seen / considered a simple queue that would drop packets on the basis of machine load?
I'd like to tail-drop packets from specific queues if the machine load is very high, instead of letting them build up ...
... it might make for a good DOS-prevention method too.
Hmm i don't think so. Queueing is done just before hardware transmission, so (almost) all processing has already being done at this point. Also since you only queue packets you're sending you could only protect other machines, but then you don't know their load ...
Patrick
