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cc: Carl Mark <carlmarkbsd@hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: Re: connection limit with ipfw
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Try posting this to freebsd-ipfw@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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