Kind of Limits

[curby .]

On 7/25/05, bright true <brighttrue at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello ,
>  i have no experience with iptables at all ... i just want to get my problem
> solved , i hope you can help me
>  How can i limit the number of connection or not limiting , let's say
>  when the number of connections reach the ALLOWED numbers of connections it
> will get block for about 2 minutes or something

It's difficult to solve problems when you don't have experience. =)

Try looking at the recent, connlimit, and expire matches.  Whether
they can be used directly without recompilation depends on your
distribution/installation of netfilter.