On Thursday 20 May 2004 5:24 pm, Real Cucumber wrote:
> Is there anyway on a Redhat 8 or 9 Linux box to limit
> the maximum number of simultaneous TCP connections for
> everything and not just a particular service?
A rather crude way of doing this would be
echo $maxconns >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max
No doubt you could do something more sophisticated with the connlimit match?
Regards,
Antony.
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