[leaf-user] Limit Number of Connections

[Simon Bolduc]

Hey all,

I'm running a few Dachstein boxes (with Seawall), and I'm having some issues 
with one of them.  My roommate runs a P2P application that opens a huge 
number of connections.  The application can be setup to only allow a certain 
number of connections, but as his PC is behind the router that limitation 
occurs behind the router.  So what happens is if he limits the open 
connections to 500 or so, his box will will only ever have 500 connections 
(verified by running netstat), but when I run netstat -Mn | grep -c 
192.168.2.201 (his IP) on the router there are 2200-3000 connections.  
Having this many connections makes everything really slow (browsing times 
out, etc).  He only seems to be using about 25% of the available bandwidth.  
Stopping the P2P app fixes the problem.

So I was wondering if there is any way to limit the amount of connections 
that a particular box can use?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Simon Bolduc

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