limiting outgoing connections

[Jason Opperisano]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 01:19, Linux Query wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> I want to limit each clients outgoing connections.
> Will the following be ok ?
> 
> iptables -A FORWARD -i $internal_interface -s $ip -m
> limit --limit 10/s -j ACCEPT
> iptables -A FORWARD  -i $internal_interface -s $ip -j
> DROP
> 
> What is a good limit figure ?

it would be saner to use the connlimit match from PoM, or the newer
hashlimit match for this.

-j

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