after the recent outbreak of Welchia and winblaster, i was wondering of a way to block Flooding of pings or such activity... My question is what u do to block such floods automaticaly per IP...what I mean. Example I''m aware that I don''t want to allow any concentrate IP host/address to send to me more than 3 icmp request per second. The question is it possible with iptables rules to automaticly detect such HOSTs and ban it... currently i use "-m limit", but this limits the total number of request... what I need is aproximatly this (perl pseudo code below): for $ip (every IP that tries to ping) { $count{$ip}++; -j DROP if $count{$ip} > $limit; } mind u, it is not nececary to be icmp it can be something else.. In fact -m limit can do this if I have rules for all offending addresses.. but the problem is that i don''t know them in advance i.e. iptables has to do this classification for me... any idea ? tia ps. afaik i think i saw something like this, but cant remember where... _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/