On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 04:36:26PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
...
> > BTW in terms of implementation efficiency: this limit thing
> > uses the same hash table used by dynamic ipfw rules.
> > There is currently an (arbitrary) limit of a total of 1000
> > dynamic entries in the table, but no reason not to raise it
> > much higher if you have memory.
>
> The main reason I was looking for a userland implementation of this
> was that adding limiting to an FTP server that has an active number of
> a few thousand connections might be a little resource intensive to the
> kernel of the machine. It's probably OK to stay a bit to much within
> a userland function that searches a hash/list of addresses, but doing
> this in the kernel, is something I can't say I fully understand yet.
>
> I'm not familiar with the ipfw code. Would it be possible to limit
> the connections based on source address for a machine that has a few
> thousand connections and still not put a heavy load on the kernel?
i'd say yes, as long as you make the hash table size
and number of buckets large enough. Both are configurable
via sysctl variables:
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_buckets: 256
net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_max: 1000
cheers
luigi
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