[Kamailio-Users] PIKE module

[Juan Perez]

thank you very much for the explanation. I got it now.
jp




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From: Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc at aliax.net>
To: users at lists.kamailio.org
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:52:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Kamailio-Users] PIKE module

Hi, please avoid HTML in a maillist and use plain text instead ;)

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El Miércoles, 11 de Marzo de 2009, Juan Perez escribió:
> Hello
>
> I need some clarification here; the Help file for this module says this:
>
> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>//////////////////////////////////////////
>The module keeps trace of all (or 
> selected ones) incoming request's IP source and blocks the ones that
> exceeded some limit.  Works simultaneous for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

> The 
> module does not implement any actions on blocking - it just simply reports
> that there is a high traffic from an IP; what to do, is the administator
> decision (via scripting).
> ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
>//////////////////////////////////////////
>
> I understand from the first part that it blocks the IPs, but last sentence
> says otherwise. How is it supposed to work?

You can reject, drop or whatever after checking if the source IP is doing a 
flood by testing:
  if (!pike_check_req()) { # do_something };

Using an external script you can list the blocked IP (using the module MI 
command called "pike_list") and do whatever you wish with that information 
(send a mail to the admin, store the IP's in a DB....



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Iñaki Baz Castillo

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