[Gllug] iptables: conditional rate limiting

[Marcus Taylor]

Alain Williams wrote:
> I currenty rate limit new connections to ssh using iptables.
>
> What I should really be doing is to rate limit *failed* connections.
> I would then like to extend this to imaps & maybe others
>   
If you don't mind using another program to monitor logs:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/authfail/

this can also do imap etc....

Not sure if you can customise the rule which gets added to the firewall



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