How to stop people from opening 300 ftp connections to the server

[nat]

Some people set their ftp application to make 300 simultaneous connections to the server thinking it will make uploading to the server through their 56k modem 300 times faster.

These 300 proftp connections cause a higher than normal load on the server.


/etc/proftpd.conf has this:

MaxClients 3 "Sorry, this ftp server has reached its maximum user count (%m). Please try again later"

That isn't working.


Is there any way to set proftp to only allow 1 connections to the server per ftp username?

[bsasninja]

Add this line to your /etc/proftpd.conf

MaxClientsPerUser 2

This will allow 2 max connections per user at the ftp server.

Bye!