Re: which firewall to automatically block bandwidth abusers?

[Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Always Learning <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 21:56 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> --
>


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.

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