James Harper wrote:
I have a Linksys SRW2048 switch and the UI fails under IE[789] because it uses too many concurrent connections for the switch to handle. I can use IETab in Firefox which works because it indirectly limits the number of concurrent HTTP requests, but that isn't always a solution.
I have a squid proxy running on a linux router though, so I was hoping I could limit the number of concurrent connections. The docs tell me I can limit them by using a deny but that will result in the connection failing rather than simply being delayed until other connections are complete.
Any suggestions? I'll use netfilter to drop new connection requests if I can't figure it out using squid.
Bit of a dumb question, but if your users are benign, why not simply tell them not to multiplex connections to the same host? e.g. use wget instead of aria2.
No it's even worse than that. The switch gets overloaded with a single browser session making multiple connections. Eg http://switch/main_page in turn loads up a heap of small images, css, java script, frames, etc, and the browser tries to load them all concurrently for performance reasons but the switch just starts refusing (connection reset) subsequent connections once it is already handling a few, so it just doesn't work. I'm the only one who logs into the switch. James