[squid-users] Re: Re: Limiting the number of connections to an address

Andrei Kovacs wrote:
> Adam Aube wrote:
>>Andrei Kovacs wrote:

>>>I would like to know if it is possible to limit the number of
>>>connections to a URI (not a particular one but in general) because I
>>>want to limit the usage of "Download Accelerators" which make 5-10
>>>connections to a file.

>>Take a look at the maxconn acl. See the FAQ or default squid.conf for more
>>information.

> Doesn't "maxconn" limit the number of connections from a specific IP ..
> the total number of connections opened, not to a specific URI ?

Correct. However, this is the closest you can get to what you want with
Squid, and it is quite effective in reining in download managers and other
misbehaving clients.

Adam
Received on Thu Jan 27 2005 - 08:36:36 MST