I've had 16040 invalid ssh attempts to my server since Sunday morning. Not sure how much traffice that relates to. Who wants to do the math for me?
That's about usual levels. I only have one port open: 22, and only one username valid. Cheers, Carl. On 13/01/06, Phill Coxon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > >
