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From: Deti Fliegl <deti@fliegl.de>
Subject: Re: Can i have a rate limit per source IP Address in IPSet?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:51:04 +0200
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Hi,

better use match 'hashlimit' for your purpose. Example:

iptables --append FORWARD --match hashlimit --hashlimit 1/s 
--hashlimit-mode srcip --jump ACCEPT

This would limit the number of requests from an specific IP address to 
1 per second.

Regards,

Deti