netdev - ping: What's the purpose of rate limit?

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Date:   Sat, 31 Dec 2016 13:04:39 +0100
From:   Guan Xin <guanx.bac@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: ping: What's the purpose of rate limit?

Hello,

Excuse me, I searched but didn't find an answer --

What's the purpose of setting a limit to the "-i" and "-l" parameters
of ping for non-root users?

It seems that this is only intended to prevent accidental misuse
because these restrictions can be easily worked around by starting
multiple instances or wrapping the program in a loop, e.g.,
while true; do ping -l3 -c3 192.168.0.1; done

(Please Cc to me because I'm not subscribed to this list. Thanks!)

Regards,
Guan