On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 01:08 +0000, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > However, a rejected ssh session won't really use many packets earlier. > Anyone care to observe one and report back? I'd guess about 10 packets > to account for the ssh negoriation, plus 7 for set-up and tear-down ... > > So I guess that's a 10-fold reduction in traffic per attempt if you > don't have an ssh service ...
Hmmm. One login attempt every 2 seconds for 4 days adds up to failed 172,800 login attempts. That's going to a reasonable chunk of traffic.
