As browsers (at least the ones I know) open 2 connections to browse websites, we could have a look on the hourly stats and estimate this (under 100 without problem). I never met such problem anyway, the highest trafic being 120 000 different users/day.
If you really have to face DDOS as said by Christopher, you would have to use something like cloudflare. For very big sites, AKAMAI,.. 2015-03-16 13:50 GMT+01:00 David kerber <dcker...@verizon.net>: > On 3/16/2015 8:41 AM, Robert Klemme wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Aurélien Terrestris >> <aterrest...@gmail.com >>> >>> wrote: >> >> >>> I agree with the NIO connector which gives good results to this >>> problem. Also, on Linux you can configure iptables firewall to limit >>> the number of connections from one IP ( >>> >>> >>> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139285/limit-max-connections-per-ip-address-and-new-connections-per-second-with-iptable >>> ) >>> >> >> What I find difficult about this approach is that because of NAT the >> number >> of individual machines (and hence connections that are reasonable) behind >> a >> single IP can vary vastly. What value will you pick to not discriminate >> large organizations? > > > That is a reasonable question, but the owner of a web site should have some > idea of who their clients are, and have a feel for a reasonable number to > allow. Obviously a site with a large clientele will be able to handle a > larger number of connections, whether they're legit or not. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
