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...user/pass attempts are tried, the IP address is blacklisted, and an email is sent to the admin of this IP address that has been blacklisted. I know this may be more of a ppp question than shorewall, but I figured some users of shorewall might have some insight on how to accomplish this. Would the maxfail x in /etc/ppp/options setting help me out? How do I then put that IP address of the client into the shorewall blacklist file, and restart shorewall for the changes to take affect? I am limiting the password attempts, due to a new security issue with PPTP, where a new brute force hacking tool can...

Hi List, I read this list for nearly two years and learnt a lot, but now i have a very strange problem I can''t solve.. I have a firewall machine running Debian, which connects a small office to the internet via a DSL-line (with pppoe) and which is running Shorewall. It allows all outbound traffic and accepts pptp, openvpn and ssh-connections (on a non-standard port) from the internet.