Rate limiting
Limiting the data rate on network controllers. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about computer networks. For the rate-limiting step in chemical kinetics, see Rate-determining step.
In computer networks, rate limiting is used to control the rate of requests sent or received by a network interface controller. It can be used to prevent DoS attacks[1] and limit web scraping.[2]
Research indicates flooding rates for one zombie machine are in excess of 20 HTTP GET requests per second,[3] legitimate rates much less.