can ipfw do this?

[victor]

Wonderful! thank you very much sir, I will give this a try asap.

Tor.

Kang Liu wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-freebsd-ipfw at freebsd.org 
>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-ipfw at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of victor
>>Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 5:53 PM
>>To: freebsd-ipfw at freebsd.org
>>Subject: can ipfw do this?
>>
>>
>>Forgive me if this question has been asked before, I'm 
>>totoally new to 
>>ipfw.  I'm looking forward to setup 'something' to limit the 
>>number of 
>>connection my smtp box would accept from a single IP address and I 
>>pictured firewall would be the most likely candidate. 
>>
>>    
>>
>use ipfw with dynamic rules can slove your problem.
>e.g.
>ipfw add allow tcp from any to any established
>ipfw add allow tcp from some_where to my_server_ip server_some_ports limit src-addr num_of_connection_pre_ip setup
>
>I suggest you use ipfw1 if it is a production server, 
>there might be some problems in ipfw2 when use dynamic rules.
>
>Kang.
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