As far I know, limit can work with -d flag..
On Wed, 7 May 2003, Malcolm Turnbull wrote:
> Neil,
>
> I've had this problem too.. caused by bastard proxies that spool
> thousands of connections.
>
> iptables limit will only work if you specify the source ip address.
>
> their is however an addon module for netfilter called iplimit which will
> limit connections from ANY source ip address, i.e. it has its own state
> table.
>
> I haven't tested it yet though.
>
>
> Neil Sandow wrote:
> > I'm running an LVS (ipvsadm v1.11 2000/06/16 (compiled with popt and IPVS
> > v0.9.14)) on a Mandrake system (Linux version 2.2.17-21mdksecure ) With 7
> > realservers behind it. It's been running for > 2 years and balances the
> > load quite nicely.
> >
> > Occassionaly I get a ton of requests from a single ip address that can
> > really bog things down. This AM I had > 2500 requests within a 7 minute
> > period for a page that has lots of ssi's running cgi's. The cpu load on
> > ALL realservers skyrocketed and effectively blocked access to the site for
> > about 5-10 minutes.
> >
> > Is there a way to limit the number of active connections to a single ip
> > address using ipchains? If this is possible using iptables, but not
> > ipchains, I would upgrade the server to resolve this problem which seems
> > to be happening several time per week.
> >
> > Thanks! -Neil
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ===================
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> >
> >
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> Regards,
>
> Malcolm Turnbull.
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