[Cerowrt-devel] BCP38 implementation

[Norman Yarvin]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:38:17AM -0700, Dave Taht wrote:

>An example idea is that I average 2 ssh dictionary attacks/sec on some
>of my boxes, and I'd just as soon start dropping connection attempts
>after X number of tries....

That's not hard to do, via the "recent" iptables module.  Here's my
set of custom rules for it.  I set up a "throttle" chain to do the
work:

iptables -N throttle
iptables -A throttle -m recent --update --seconds 1200 --hitcount 4 -j DROP
iptables -A throttle -m recent --set
iptables -A throttle -j ACCEPT

Then after a bit of preliminary filtering I forward incoming ssh and
ftp attempts to the "throttle" chain:

iptables -I INPUT -i ge00 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -p tcp --dport ssh \
        -j throttle
iptables -I INPUT -i ge00 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -p tcp --dport ftp \
        -j throttle


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