[thredds] max connections from one ip

Dear THREDDS team,

is there a possibility to limit the maximum count of connections from one IP address in THREDDS? Or something simlilar? A THREDDS user just downloaded many Files per HTTPServer by wget and obviously used many simultaneous connections. This slowed our Apache-Webserver down because its maximum count of incoming connections has been exceeded. What can I do to avoid that?

Thank you very much in advance!
Remon