Examples

Example 1 - allow a maximum of 100 connection attempts per second from any one IP address, and block further connection attempts from that IP address for 10 seconds:

    rate_filter \
        gen_id 135, sig_id 1, \
        track by_src, \
        count 100, seconds 1, \
        new_action drop, timeout 10

Example 2 - allow a maximum of 100 successful simultaneous connections from any one IP address, and block further connections from that IP address for 10 seconds:

    rate_filter \
        gen_id 135, sig_id 2, \
        track by_src, \
        count 100, seconds 0, \
        new_action drop, timeout 10