Subject: Re: Session limit
To: None <rimantas@remo.lt>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/04/2006 13:29:12
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 20:16:41 +0300 (EEST), "Rimantas Petrauskas"
<rimantas@remo.lt> wrote:

> >>>>> is it possible to limit active sessions number by IP address[?]
> >> In passing, why do you want to do this?  It sounds like an odd desire,
> >> and I'm having trouble imagining any use for it.
> > He's running a pr0n site and wants to keep a single IP addy from cranking
> > up 100 concurrent wgets and leeching his pix?
> 
> Interesting opinion, but the answer is false.
> 
> We are ISP in Lithuania. I need to limit sessions for client IP whom
> monthly fee is smallest :)
> 
Would limiting bandwidth do more of what you want?

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb