METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING NETWORK TRAFFIC TO A NETWORK COMPUTER

摘要

A method and system for controlling network traffic to a network computer such as a server is provided wherein such control is provided based on a measured capacity of the sever to service the network traffic and rule data which represents different policies for servicing the network traffic. A load-controller of the system installs more or less restrictive packet or request filtering policies based on the capacity of the server to throttle the traffic to the server. The method and system are sensitive to the actual capacity of the server by adopting this adaptive traffic-shaping feature instead of using rigid policies to control resource usage on the server.