On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Alan Holden <[email protected]> wrote:
> ** > Thanks Matt! > I was trying to avoid answers like Netscaler and fancy routers, etc. > This might get you started at least: http://serverfault.com/questions/125168/apache2-limit-simultaneous-requests-throttle-bandwidth-per-ip-client But I'm pretty sure solutions like Nagios and others have this functionality as well, and would run on any old box you have laying around. I do get the "additional management" argument against this in the abstract, but there's a huge upside to having a box to handle this sort of stuff as a layer on top of everything as well. As always you have to balance the pros and cons and do what works for your environment and staff, be that using something at the OpenBD level, web server level, or using IDS or other firewall-type tools. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
