Subject: Re: FTPD: disallowing concurrent connections from same IP
To: John Maier <jmaier@midamerica.net>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/17/2003 18:20:17
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 06:10:16PM -0600, John Maier wrote:
> I have a anonymous FTP and I know I can limit transfer rates, number of
> connections by group, but is there a way to stop people from making
> concurrent connections from the same IP?

As far as I know, this can't be done with NetBSD's ftpd... ProFTPD
<http://www.proftpd.org/> will let you limit the number of connections
per IP though. And yeah, it's really lame and selfish when people open
a flood of connections to try to get more than their fair share of the
bandwidth :)
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