ML wrote: > HI All, > > With my new firewall in place, it has opened my eyes to how much > traffic gets blocked in a single day and also what are the most active > rules. I get *a lot* of requests for port 22. > > How does one switch ssh ports? What is a good port to use? What > ramifications does it have when I need to ssh in? Is it as simple as > ssh user at hots:port? Perhaps the first thing I do on a new server is: vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config And uncomment the port line, change the port number to my favorite port number, save the file, then restart sshd. I much perfer this method to setting up port limiting runs in iptables and ip6tables.