Anyone know how to limit a amount of connections per i.p.?

[DWHS.net]

I need to limit a server to only letting 4 concurrent connections per i.p. at once.

Thank you very much for any help on this.

-Charles

[chirpy]

Hi Charles,

To any service in particular, or just to the server as a whole?

[DWHS.net]

I would be for apache or port 80. It's for his website so something in htaccess would be ideal.

[chirpy]

I don't believe that you can do it in standard apache. However, you can do it using mod_throttle I believe by using its ThrottlePolicy directive within a VirtualHost container in httpd.conf like this:

<IfModule mod_throttle.c>
 ThrottlePolicy Request 4 1
</IfModule>

A Request here is an IP address and we're limited 4 connections per 1 second:
http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_throttle/

[DWHS.net]

I don't believe that you can do it in standard apache. However, you can do it using mod_throttle I believe by using its ThrottlePolicy directive within a VirtualHost container in httpd.conf like this:

<IfModule mod_throttle.c>
 ThrottlePolicy Request 4 1
</IfModule>

A Request here is an IP address and we're limited 4 connections per 1 second:
http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_throttle/

Thanks Chirpy but I am a big fan of that mod. I will just have to make due.

Thanks again.