iptables to limit no. of connection per domain

[M.W.Chang]

I just wanted to enable evverything since I had nothing to lose. THen I
got looking for examples of using them. It certainly was not as simple
as I thought...

> The above are normal.  Why do you think you need all the above anyway?
> Thought you just needed iplimit, no _everything_ (and everything won't
> compile).
> I suggest you back out those patches you don't need, they may
> prevent iplimit from compiling.

/usr (/usr/src) and / (/tmp) are on separate partitions
What should I do to avoid the error? soft link?

> either you ran out of space in you /tmp partition or your
> iptables-1.2.6a/, linux/ (and from the looks of it /tmp) are not all on
> the same partition.  The above is a hard link error message.

nah.. to be safe, I will use a fresh copy of kernel-2.4.18 and try
again. best for newbies... 

> BTW, in either 1.2.5 or 1.2.6a, Rusty introduced the ability to back out
> patches.