popa3d-users - Re: Problem with nb of connectiosn from single host

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Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 13:03:37 +0200
From: FAI - Thierry Montigneaux <thierrym@....org>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Problem with nb of connectiosn from single host

Solar Designer wrote:
> 
> Yes, but at this time this setting is compile-time.  This means that
> you'd need to either build popa3d from the original source tarball
> (and install under /usr/local) or patch the OpenBSD source tree and
> rebuild popa3d from there.

I'll go for the source tree patch...

Question: is it preferable in case I want to run popa3d as a daemon to use
the following settings in params.h :

define POP_STANDALONE   1
define POP_OPTIONS      0



> What you're looking for is the MAX_SESSIONS, MAX_SESSIONS_PER_SOURCE,
> and/or MIN_DELAY parameters in params.h.
> 
> The sessions are opened one at a time, right?

yes, I believe so.

>  If so, I suggest that
> you leave MAX_SESSIONS as is (at 100), increase MAX_SESSIONS_PER_SOURCE
> to 50, and decrease MIN_DELAY to 1 second.  That will allow up to 50
> sessions from the same source per second. 

I will try with your suggested parameters as a first step. That should do.

Thanks for the feedback !

T.