PHREL v0.9.6 (10/19/06) - http://www.digitalgenesis.com

  Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Digital Genesis Software. All rights reserved.

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
  as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
  of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>
  for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.

Maintainer:

  Digital Genesis Software. <sellanms@digitalgenesis.com>
  http://www.digitalgenesis.com

Supported Platforms:

  UN*X based platforms (Tested on Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x)

Software Requirements: 

  Building:

     GNU make          (Tested with 3.79.1, 3.80)
     GNU g++           (Tested with 2.95.3, 3.2, 3.3, 4.0)
     libpcap           (Tested with 0.8.0, 0.8.3)
     NET-SNMP          (Tested with 5.1.2)

  Using:

     iptables          (Tested with 1.2.9)

Description:

  PHREL is a Per Host RatE Limiter. It will track the rate of incoming traffic
  to a server and insert a chain into iptables when a configured threshold is
  crossed. The inserted chain may either rate limit or block the offending host
  for a period of time.
  
Installation:

  See the INSTALL file for installation instructions.

Support:

  If you have questions regarding the use of PHREL, please visit our support
  forums at:

    http://www.digitalgenesis.com/support/forum/

Suggestions:

  If you have suggestions, comments or patches for PHREL, please visit our
  forums at:

    http://www.digitalgenesis.com/support/forum/

Patches:

  If you have fixed a bug or added a new feature to PHREL and would like
  to submit your patch to us, please create a unified diff as follows
  (replacing x.x.x with the version number):

    tar xvzf phrel-x.x.x.tar.gz
    cp -a phrel-x.x.x phrel-x.x.x-modified

  Make your changes to 'phrel-x.x.x-modified'.

    diff -urN phrel phrel-x.x.x-modified

    -or-

    diff -u --recursive --new-file phrel phrel-x.x.x-modified

  Patches can be submitted via the forums at:

    http://www.digitalgenesis.com/support/forum/

Credits:

  James M. Sella/DGS - Code and documentation.

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