connection limit with ipfw
Ed Stover
estover at nativenerds.com
Mon Jan 10 06:58:56 PST 2005
Try posting this to freebsd-ipfw at freebsd.org that might be a little more
responsive toward the question.
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 12:32 +0000, Carl Mark wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I'm trying to set up a ruleset that limits every user to X tcp
> connections, since I have 300 active users on each server. I've been trying
> to work it out with the ipfw limit but I really don't know how effective it
> is.
>
> For example:
>
> ipfw -q add 15 allow tcp from me to any 80 limit dst-port X keep-state out
> setup
>
>
> Will this limit the whole machine to X connections that match the rule? I
> wanted to build somehting that would limit every user to X conns without
> having one rule for each user using the "uid" directive.
>
> Thanks for your precious help.
> Regards,
> Carl
>
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