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Date:      Sat, 25 May 2002 15:17:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Lossless bandwidth limiter on an interface
Message-ID:  <200205251917.g4PJH3oS088440@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020522174256.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <XFMail.20020522174256.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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<<On Wed, 22 May 2002 17:42:56 -0400 (EDT), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> out of the box.  Ideally, I would like applications sending packets to the
> interface to block when the outgoing queue is full.

No Can Do.  The network stack is not prepared to block at all, ever.

-GAWollman


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