-=> Mark Hofmann wrote to Digimaus <=-

 MH> The Cisco ASA firewall has this nifty feature that allows you to limit
 MH> simultaneous connections from the same source/external IP.  That is
 MH> what I put in place for tcp/23 for the BBS nodes over here.  At least
 MH> that keeps the same IP from flooding connections.

I've done similar using pfSense and fail2ban.

I'm running these jails in fail2ban:

Status |- Number of jail: 12 
       `- Jail list: apache-auth, apache-badbots,
apache-botsearch, apache-fakegooglebot, apache-modsecurity, apache-nohome,
apache-noscript, apache-overflows, apache-shellshock, proftpd, recidive,
sshd

You don't want to see how full my recidive filter is.  Maybe at the end of
the month I'll clear it and start all over again for fun. <G>

-- Sean

... The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
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