Re: max # of connections per IP ?

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:35:03PM -0400, Chuck Yerkes wrote:

> Why? Because there is no good technical reason for it, really.

well, actually it could be quite useful IMHO.
FreeBSD's IPFW support it (no intention to start an holy war !! ;))) )


> You've got a request coming from ISO layer 8 (the political layer)
> to do something at layer 4.

you're quite right about the 8th layer :-D
(very nice definition! :) )


> Note also that I can run mozilla and perhaps go to a bookmark that
> opens 5 tabs and each tab opens 8 HTTP connections and that one
> "go to bookmark" creates 40 TCP connections.
>
> Is this wrong? no, it's well within the spec's of HTTP and TCP/IP.
> Is this bad? Not really.

yes, this is definitely true.


> This smells to me of a semi-technical person perceiving a solution
> to a problem and mandating that when correct and implementable
> solutions exist.

more or less.

let's say it would be a sort of "mitigation factor" for services like
P2Ps for clients in our LAN. Other services are already proxy-forced
and bandwidth is not, per se, a problem (10Mbps WAN link just for users
is not very common here in Italy) but very often we see many thousends
of connections coming from a single IP (Win box with some P2P software
installed).
This would not be an hard-limit according to our company's internal
policy, simply it could a "nice" and "useful" thing to do.

I guess it would be quite "simple" for Mr. Reed to implement, maybe
he'll read this mail and will take a note for future releases... ;-))



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bye!

Ale