Re: IPTables limits?

[Andrew Kelly <akelly corisweb org>]

On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 11:30 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Andrew Kelly wrote:
<snip>

> > Unfortunately, it also foils legitimate accesses often enough. This is a
> > very effective set up, but it comes with the caveat that "connection
> > requests" are counted, and not "connection requests from IP address
> > such-and-such".
> 
> No, it tracks the source IP.  Two attempts from the same source IP
> trigger the lockout.

Mea Culpa, Rick, you're absolutely right. I just discovered that my
rules weren't even using the recent mod. (Homer Simpson sound)

Thanks, man.

Andy