Re: Trying to understand iptables

2008-08-01 Thread Jon Dowland
>From the iptables man-page, zipping down to the section documenting the "recent" module: [!] --seconds seconds This option must be used in conjunction with one of --rcheck or --update. When used, this will narrow the match to only happen when the address is in

Trying to understand iptables

2008-07-31 Thread Michael S. Peek
Hello gurus, I'm playing around with the SSH throttling examples from debian-administration.org. I'm still a bit new to iptables, and I'm trying to understand how this works. I have the following two commands: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -m recent \ --s