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From: Jason Opperisano <opie@817west.com>
To: Netfilter ML <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: limiting connections
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:33:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041101163326.GA18387@bender.817west.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041101161947.GA15423@tranquility.scriptkitchen.com>

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:19:47AM -0500, Payal Rathod wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:04:46AM -0500, Jason Opperisano wrote:
> > yeah, in your web server configuration, set the maximum number of
> > simultaneous connections to 10.
> 
> Not all webservers (especially windows based) might support it. Also

they should (and yes, IIS does have a max conns setting).

> what if the server in question is not a webserver but some simple server with 
> no such capabalities.

k.

> Hence I was looking at iptables to solve it for me.
> The reason is that I am scared to re-make a core utility such as
> iptables from  a tar ball. I prefer rpm for such cases.
> I have Mandrake 10.0 (official).

which brings us back to connlimit...  take a test machine, follow the
procedure for patching your kernel via POM, and instead of making and
installing the kernel, do a 'make rpm' and upgrade your production
firewall with that rpm (after testing it, of course)...  making &
installing iptables from source will default to /usr/local/sbin, so it
won't interfere with your rpm-installed iptables.

the question "i want a feature from POM, but don't want to have to
compile anything" isn't very much in the spirit of linux, IMHO...maybe
i'm just a crusty old man in that respect.

-j

--
"Lisa, if the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's
that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling
and foxy boxing and such and such."
        --The Simpsons


      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-01 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-01  9:26 limiting connections Payal Rathod
2004-11-01 13:45 ` Jason Opperisano
2004-11-01 14:51   ` Payal Rathod
2004-11-01 15:04     ` Jason Opperisano
2004-11-01 16:19       ` Payal Rathod
2004-11-01 16:33         ` Jason Opperisano [this message]

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