Hello Rio, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 5:42:03 AM, you wrote: Or you can use patch-o-matic connlimit + MARK. " This adds CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_CONNLIMIT match allows you to restrict the number of parallel TCP connections to a server per client IP address (or address block). Examples: # allow 2 telnet connections per client host iptables -p tcp --syn --dport 23 -m connlimit --connlimit-above 2 -j REJECT " But i am not sure, it is perfomant solution. RM> On Monday 22 September 2003 21:21, Mihai Vlad wrote: >> Hello again, >> I have a router/nat linux box. I managed to create some HTB classes and >> everything is OK. >> When perople are usig download managers like FlashGet and DAP (multiple >> connection ones), the ceil limiting works okay, >> but the rate parameter is somehow useles... The guaranteed bandwidth is >> never reached. >> So what can I do to limit the number of connections/computer? >> I want to make sure that they do not use more than one connection for >> the download manager. >> Thanks in advance RM> Actually this is not Bandwidth Limiter task, RM> this is could be handled by your proxy, like Squid. Check the configuration RM> and enable maxconn ACL for file types: .exe .tar.gz .zip .iso .. etc .. RM> - Rio.Martin - RM> _______________________________________________ RM> LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx RM> http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ -- Best regards, Denis mailto:admin@xxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/