PPSRATECHECK(9) 					   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual					   PPSRATECHECK(9)

NAME

     ppsratecheck -- function to help implement rate-limited actions

SYNOPSIS

     #include <sys/time.h>

     int
     ppsratecheck(struct timeval *lasttime, int *curpps, int maxpps);

DESCRIPTION

     The ppsratecheck() function provides easy way to perform packet-per-sec, or event-per-sec, rate limitation.  The motivation for implementing
     ppsratecheck() was to provide a mechanism that could be used to add rate limitation to network packet output.  For certain network packets,
     we may want to impose rate limitation, to avoid denial-of-service attack possibilities.

     maxpps specifies maximum permitted packets, or events, per second.  If ppsratecheck() is called more than maxpps times in a given one second
     period, the function will return 0, indicating that we exceeded the limit.  If we are below the limit, the function will return 1.  If maxpps
     is set to 0, the function will always return 0 (no packets/events are permitted).	Negative maxpps indicates that rate limitation is dis-
     abled, and ppsratecheck will always return 1.

     curpps and lasttime are used to maintain the number of recent calls.  curpps will be incremented every time ppsratecheck() is called, and
     will be reset whenever necessary.

SEE ALSO

     log(9), printf(9), ratecheck(9), time_second(9)

HISTORY

     The ppsratecheck() function appeared in NetBSD 1.5.

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								  August 3, 2000							       BSD