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		spiderfarmer on March 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TcpKali – Fast multi-core TCP and WebSockets load ... What is the best way to prevent tools like this from ddossing a simple sockets.io server?

zimbatm on March 11, 2016 | [–]

Put a haproxy in front that does the rate-limiting and connection tracking.

pyvpx on March 11, 2016 | [–]

abstinence ?

it has flags to tailor the number of connections, bandwidth, message rate, etc. or are you speaking to malicious use?

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