limiting the number of connections per client

[Ali, Saqib]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick response. Can you please explain how this would
work? I am not very familiar with xinet.d, and I don't see a rsync
file in the /etc/xinetd.d/ dir.

Thanks
Saqib

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke at gwdg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Ali, Saqib wrote:
>
>> We have a very high utilization rsync server. We can handle large
>> number of connections at a time, but would like to limit to one
>> connection per client. we don't want multiple connections from the
>> same client. Is that possible?
>
> With the help of xinetd.
>
> Example:
>
> ftp5:2 22:39:02 ~ # cat /etc/xinetd.d/rsync
> # default: off
> # description: rsync file transfer daemon
> service rsync
> {
>        socket_type     = stream
>        protocol        = tcp
>        wait            = no
>        user            = root
>        server          = /usr/sbin/rsyncd
>        instances       = 999
>        per_source      = 19
>        server_args     = --daemon
> #       disable         = yes
> }
> ftp5:2 22:39:03 ~ #
>
>
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