tisdagen den 11 februari 2003 18.19 skrev Jean-Michel Dault: > Le mar 11/02/2003 � 13:15, Marcel Pol a �crit : > > > > What about mod_iplimitconn? > > > > http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn2.html > > > > > > Ahh, that one. Yes I looked at it, but it requires that you patch the > > > apache core. I'm not comfortable with that, maybe jmdault has more good > > > points on this. Apache2 is soon to be moved to main, and then I can't > > > touch it as easy, but I don't want to sneak in a patch just to make > > > this module work. It's better to wait until the module author(s) fix > > > the module so that you don't have to patch the apache core I think. > > I had a look at the patch, it's very very small (69 lines), and touches > only mod_status. > > So I have no problem patching Apache with this. > > I'll see if I can add it before the feature freeze and RC1. > > Jean-Michel
When is that? I could do it right away, no sweat. > > That was my first impression too, but the patch for apache is only > > necessary for clients using proxies. Without the apache patch, 2 clients > > using the same proxy will be counted as the same client. This would only > > affect high-traffic sites, which you can call a limitation. For > > not-so-high-traffic sites, it shouldn't be a big problem. Aha, ok. Thanks. So, what do you all think, patch or not? > > > > I believe I used mod_throttle or mod_bandwidth once, and was > > > > dissapointed that it just refuses connections after the limits have > > > > been reached (or was that user error?). > > > > I haven't used mod_iplimitconn myself, but it seems to be a good way > > > > to set a maximum to connections per client adress. > > > > > > Have you tried mod_bwshare yet? > > > http://www.deserve-it.com/third_party_modules_for_apache2_1.html > > > > No, I haven't. According to the docs on the site it seems good. It at > > least gives a usefull error :-) Better then "connection refused" or > > something. I should try it out. Thank you. -- Regards // Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT.com
