How to limit the maximum number of client connections per IP address in SQUID
Issue
- Using
client_ip_max_connectionsin SQUID doesn't limit the number of connections per IP address, connections are still getting accepted, but unusable - Using
client_ip_max_connectionsin SQUID leads to SQUID leaking file descriptor resources
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 and later
- squid 3.1.x (RHEL6)
- squid 3.5.x (RHEL7)
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