AW: [Mimedefang] Configuring when MD runs

[Barry Byrne]

Josh:

You should be able to use the 'limit' option to do this with ipfw.

 - Barry

-----Original Message-----
From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com
[mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com]On Behalf Of
jmiller at purifieddata.net
Sent: 24 November 2002 21:27

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Martin Bene wrote:

> To avoid this mess I recently put iptables with iplimit module from
iptables
> patch-o-matic on the (linux 2.4.18) box. this allows me to define a limit:
> max 10 concurrent smtp connections from any single client. Result: just
the
> conections from idiot servers get blocked, sendmail stays reachable for
> regular users. Also, server load is kept in a much more sensible range.

Does anyone know if FreeBSD's ipfw supports such a thing?
My appologies with this being off topic, just hoping maybe some other
FreeBSD admin has needed such a beast for his mail system.