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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Lossless bandwidth limiter on an interface
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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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