(RADIATOR) Duplicate kinda requests

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Craig -

I understand the problem - unfortunately there is nothing Radiator can 
do to rate-limit a mis-behaving client device.

Perhaps you could put a filter on one of your routers to drop the "bad" 
requests?

regards

Hugh


On Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003, at 01:02 Australia/Melbourne, Craig Gittens 
wrote:

> I know Radiator isn't the problem. I just want a way to rate-limit the
> amount of failed authentication attempts.
>
> e.g. If the user/pass fails twice in three seconds = ignore the user 
> request
> for another x seconds.
>
> Is this possible? If not would it be a good idea for a feature? You 
> should
> see my console it just scrolls by on trace 3 with one username failing 
> 2-3
> times a second.
>
> Craig.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radiator at open.com.au [mailto:owner-radiator at open.com.au]On
> Behalf Of Hugh Irvine
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 5:33 PM
> To: Craig Gittens
> Cc: Radiator
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Duplicate kinda requests
>
>
>
> Hello Craig -
>
> The problem here is that Radiator is not the source of the problem.
>
> The correct answer would be to remove power from the ADSL modem.
>
> What do you want Radiator to do?
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
>
> On Monday, Feb 17, 2003, at 05:07 Australia/Melbourne, Craig Gittens
> wrote:
>
>> I have a problem with ADSL users we authenticate here. They pound the
>> server
>> right now with 2-3 requests every second if their account has expired.
>>
>> How would you handle this? They are not duplicate requests.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Craig.
>>
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