Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 10:42:43 -0700 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Limiting clients per source IP address (ftpd, inetd, etc.) Message-ID: <20020623104243.A5734@iguana.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <20020623181950.A42156@clan.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:19:51PM %2B0100 References: <20020621000924.GA2178@hades.hell.gr> <20020623181950.A42156@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:19:51PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:09:25AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > I've been thinking for quite some time to add per-client-IP limiting > > to ftpd, > > I needed to do this. > > Then I discovered that ipfw's "limit" directive lets you limit the > number of incoming connections, which proved much more powerful. the funny thing is that when i implemented it i thought it was completely useless :) As a matter of fact, I still think that, at least for resource management purposes. It may have its good use for protection against denial-of-service attacks though. cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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