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Iptables rate limiting one liner

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 192.168.1.253] on May 17, 2008 05:35 PM
Rate limiting new connection attempts using iptables stop all brute force attacks with a one liner:
iptables -I INPUT -p TCP -m state --state NEW -m limit --limit 10/minute --limit-burst 5 -j ACCEPT

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