Re: [WISPA] SSH DOS Killing Linux

2007-01-07 Thread Tom DeReggi
Thanks Steve! I think that should help alot. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband - Original Message - From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 11:52 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [WISPA] SSH DOS Killing Linux

2007-01-07 Thread Tom DeReggi
> To: "'WISPA General List'" Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 8:24 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] SSH DOS Killing Linux "The infected sub was bandwidth managed with HTB to 256k cir, 1 mbps mir, but not anything for PPS." Tom- Why don't you just limit the numb

Re: [WISPA] SSH DOS Killing Linux

2007-01-07 Thread Steve
Have you installed software such as fail2ban which will block the ip address after n number of failed ssh logins for n number of seconds. Depending on the purpose of the server it may block internet access for the client, but I wouldn't worry about that for my network. I have it installed on all my

RE: [WISPA] SSH DOS Killing Linux

2007-01-07 Thread Marty Dougherty
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 9:27 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] SSH DOS Killing Linux We recently had a really nasty DOS attack that took down a large part of our network across several cell sites, from the infected client all the way to the Internet transit. Take note that we

Re: [WISPA] SSH DOS Killing Linux

2007-01-06 Thread W.D.McKinney
- Original Message - From: Tom DeReggi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:26:39 -0900 Subject: [WISPA] SSH DOS Killing Linux > We recently had a really nasty DOS attack that took down a large part of our > >

[WISPA] SSH DOS Killing Linux

2007-01-06 Thread Tom DeReggi
We recently had a really nasty DOS attack that took down a large part of our network across several cell sites, from the infected client all the way to the Internet transit. Take note that we identified the problem quickly and cured it quickly. But This is the first time that this has occure