netdev - Re: network packet kernel rate limit

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Message-ID: <CAM_iQpWT3EDqx9WSfso6BVeMuo_gsEsgBJx3prOQcT7_0kd28Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:41:47 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     YUAN Linyu <Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: network packet kernel rate limit

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:17 PM, YUAN Linyu
<Linyu.Yuan@...atel-sbell.com.cn> wrote:
> User space application require linux kernel to do rate limit to some type of Ethernet packet(ARP, ICMP, TCP, for example 1000 packet/s) when system run under Ethernet packet flooding test.
> Do you know if kernel already exist a feature to implement this requirement?

There are multiple Qdisc's for rate limiting, e.g.:
http://lartc.org/manpages/tc-htb.html