Is there any protection mechanism for a spamming dhcp client?
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Thu Feb 3 14:19:50 UTC 2011
Jürgen Dietl wrote:
>Concerning the ip-table proposal:
>
>Is there a way to ignore a special amount of
>packets with ip table? I dont want to block all
>the packets from the client. Can you maybe post
>an example for IP-Tables?
I've never used it, but there is a "recent"
module for iptables. I believe it has the ability
to apply "if there have been x packets from this
host matching this rule in the last y seconds,
then drop the packet".
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