Re: Can Shorewall Help Me?

Tom Eastep
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:30:33 -0000

On 8/24/10 7:33 PM, J and T wrote:

> Is there anything Shorewall can do to help us?

You can try per-IP rate limiting but that might end up running your
kernel out of memory if there are truly 1000s of hosts attacking your
system.

-Tom
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