>> Hi, >> >> Taking again the thread about the SSH brute force attacks, but with a >> question. >> >> We have a nice tool called system-config-securitylevel, why isn't it >> possible to indicate some ips or ranges there an click to "stealth" so, >> this port is just visible to the indicated ip-adresses?? >> >> Roger >> > > Because it's a simple gui tool designed to be simple. > you're right at this point, it's adding a function more., but adding this function would not mean crashing usability of this tool, i think. It's just an senseful option more, that keeps EASY the users computers more secure - specially on servers. If we were talking about usability, why not discussing an application level gateway-firewall for fedora like eg. zonealarm? This is well known by most of all users... Roger