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by vvanders 3200 days ago
Take a look at Netcode.io, all clients are auth'd with a token and any client that doesn't have the token gets ignored. The token also mandates what IP/hostnames are a valid destination. That way someone trying to DoS just gets their account blacklisted.

Congestion control isn't going to help when a bad actor spoofs your protocol and dump GBs of data on you.