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Limit number of outgoing connections

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Subject: Limit number of outgoing connections
From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:52:27 +0200
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Hello!

I have an internal network behind a gateway running ipfilter/ipnat. Is it possible to limit the number of simultaneous outgoing connections per internal client? For example, if some client runs something like eMule or bittorrent it creates a lot of outgoing connections which are passed by a 'keep state' filter rule, and I'm afraid it fills up the state table.

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Toomas

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