>> >> Hi folks, >> >> I am interrested in limiting the number of clients which can use our squid. I am not asking how to limit the connections of one ip address. Well is the following possible? >> I would like squid to answer lets say requests from 1000 ip addresses or clients and redirect all clients above 1000 to a special "resource limit" >> page. The 1000 ips are official ips so they are all external. >> After a given time lets say 300 seconds squid should remove this ip out of >> the acceptlist so one new client can connect without the "resource limit" >> page. >> >> Has someone a clue how to do this? Even without squid? >> Any help is greatly appreciated. >> Thank you, b52 >> >> > > I can't see any reason , for organising a : > > - Random denial of service setup with SQUID. > > Why do you think this would be needed ? > > M > > There is a webserver/database construction behind the squid where I am not root on and they have a too much load problem on their database. I provide several proxies in front of their webserver and because they are not able to restrict the amount of clients I thought to do that with squid but I don't have feedback about the load of their crap. Well its not a random denial of service setup, It is first come first served for X clients for Y seconds each. Every client more than X will be asked to try it again later. An Idea how to do that? I tried already iptables to count the sessions but I don't know how to implement this... Thanks, b52
