August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
28h 15m
English
If your system is configured to allow anonymous FTP logins and you expect to receive a lot of traffic, it makes sense to limit the number of connections that can be open to the FTP server at any one time. This puts a ceiling on the network and CPU load that FTP transfers can generate, which is important if the system is being used for some other purpose (such as running a web server).
This limit can be set globally, on a per-virtual server basis, or just for anonymous clients. This means that you can set a limit that applies to all servers, and then increase or decrease it for a particular virtual host. You can also set a lower limit for anonymous clients versus those that have valid logins.
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