Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 09:33:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limiting connections per IP w/FreeBSD ftpd? Message-ID: <16087.24004.208831.221102@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030530133052.GC414@nitro.dk> References: <16087.23499.422415.378026@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030530133052.GC414@nitro.dk>
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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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