Re: [CentOS] which firewall to automatically block bandwidth abusers?

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Always Learning centos@u61.u22.net wrote:

On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 21:56 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:

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BUT, if Steve changes his IP to circumvent the block, then his new IP should be blocked as well.

How will you know Steve has successfully circumvented your block until until the same Steve, with IP2, eventually exceeds the 'quota' ?

And if Steve gets away with that, he can probably try again with IP3 and IP4 etc. - making a mockery of your bandwidth restriction.

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The point it, it doesn't matter who the user is. As soon as an IP, any IP exceeds the limit, it should get blocked.