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

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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:01:37 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Problem with nb of connectiosn from single host

On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:53:22AM +0200, FAI - Thierry Montigneaux wrote:
> > 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. 
> > If that is still not enough, you may further increase
> > MAX_SESSIONS_PER_SOURCE and MAX_SESSIONS or set MIN_DELAY to 0.
> 
> I have just tried to rebuild popa3d using your recommended settings above,
> and get a syntax error message.
> 
> What I did, in addition to changing the values in the 2 lines, is uncomment
> each line by removing the '#' sign at the beginning of each of the 2 lines.
> Should I have kept it ? Any idea what else could be causing the problem ?

Those lines are cpp(1) directives, not comments.  All cpp directives
start with a '#', which you should have kept.

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