Limit max concurrent connections per IP
 

I have 5 IP addresses taking up 400+ connections each to my server, which eventually overwhelms apache combined with my other traffic.

I have pennywize to protect my members section, but nothing to protect my free files / movie galleries...

So instead of letting one ip address get 400+ connections, how can i limit him to lets say 10?

I know theres an apache module for
that
search modules.apache.org for iplimit
If you have freebsd , ipfw has a nice limiting feature.
So does iptables actually but you need to recompile the kernel with a patch, yack

thanx
http://dominia.org/djao/limitipconn.html