limiting connections per IP w/FreeBSD ftpd?
Andrew Gallatin
gallatin at cs.duke.edu
Fri May 30 06:34:02 PDT 2003
Simon L. Nielsen writes:
> On 2003.05.30 09:25:31 -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> >
> > At my company, some bonehead (not sure if it was maliciousness or just
> > a stupid customer), opened 60 simultaneous connections to our ftp
> > server and totally swamped our T1. This is the second or third time
> > this has happened recently.
>
> How about just restricting the bandwidth usage with ipfw/dummynet ?
>
Our firewall is elsewhere, and I don't admin it.
As for adding it to the server itself, its an alpha, and I don't think
dummnet/ipfw are production quality on alpha...
Drew
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