I am new to iptables and I find it hard to understand rate limiting. (-m limit) Just a few questions: 1) It is used for logging as well as not allowing a stream to exceed its packets/time quota? 2) will all the packets that execeed the given rate be dropped? (assuming a DROP jump is given) 3) is this a form of bandwidth management ... can i do this to limit the bandwidth used by members in my organization? 4) how is dstlimit different? (and... quit naive... why is there no srclimit?) I searched hard... but i have failed to find proper answers for the above questions....
