Subject: Re: ICMPv6 ratelimiting, which /proc-settings related?

From: Peter Bieringer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:49:09 +0200

- --On Saturday, July 13, 2002 09:49:19 PM +0200 Harald Welte
<[email-masked]> wrote:

>> extending my IPv6-howto with information about the /proc-FS I found
>> that there is no setting for ICMPv6 rate limiting.
>> 
>> But in "ipv6/icmp.c" there are some " if (net_ratelimit())" calls.
>> 
>> How can this limit be controlled? Is it the
>>         "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ratelimit"
>> switch?
> 
> no, the net_ratelimit() is a generic function to limit the rate of
> printk()'s to prevent syslog flooding...

Ok.

Are there any plans on the IPv6 roadmap?

I've cross-post to USAGI also, perhaps they are working on such.

TIA,
        Peter