Hi,

So actually this can't really prevent "floods", I mean
there's a difference between getting 100 connections from an
IP in a period of 1 day and getting 100 connections in a
period of 1 minute. The first doesn't constitute a problem,
the second represents a flood problem. 

It's quite an important distinction and it's important to
try and prevent floods.

Is the only way, then, to differentiate between the two to
have a global filter running which keeps track of
connections?


> > I couldn't find this in the documentation, what is the
> > setting for this upper limit on number of connections?
> 
> MAXPERC and MAXPERIP variables, set in the configuration
> file.
> 
> > Also, this limit is based on certain window of time?
> > What time frame constitutes "too many connections"?
> 
> The time frame is "at any given time".  Connections from
> the same IP address  or the same /24 where there are
> already the maximum number of existing  connections, are
> rejected.



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