On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 06:19:51PM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:09:25AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > I've been thinking for quite some time to add per-client-IP limiting
> > to ftpd,
>
> I needed to do this.
>
> Then I discovered that ipfw's "limit" directive lets you limit the
> number of incoming connections, which proved much more powerful.
the funny thing is that when i implemented it i thought it
was completely useless :)
As a matter of fact, I still think that, at least for resource
management purposes. It may have its good use for protection against
denial-of-service attacks though.
cheers
luigi
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