* Henrik Nordstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Monday 16 June 2003 10.58, Jay Turner wrote:
> 
> > iptables -N syn-flood
> > iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -p tcp --syn -j syn-flood
> > iptables -A syn-flood -m limit --limit 1/s --limit-burst 80 -j
> > RETURN iptables -A syn-flood -j LOG --log-prefix
> > "syn-flood-protection: " iptables -A syn-flood -j DROP
> 
> Problem with this is that the same limit is applied to all 
> connections. If one single IP address syn-floods the server then no 
> new connections will be accepted from anywhere.

Exactly. But we only want to conveniently block the runaway client.

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