I have news servers which are seeing a high load caused by a few users who are opening sockets and closing them at a high rate, issuing one command per connect. I know how to limit overall connection rate, and how to limit connections per IP, but is there a per-IP rate limiting patch or method? I am trying to avoid impacting other users, so the solution must be done on each IP. -- bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.