On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >The overhead of TARPIT created in conntrack can completely be avoided by > >using NOTRACK and TARPIT targets together. > > Probably, but it does not belong to the topic ("leaking blocked ip addr.s"). Yes, diverted from the original topic - I wrote it for the sake of completeness. > On the NOTRACK, I've got a question, or maybe just a weird problem: > NOTRACK is only valid in the mangle table, and TARPIT is one of the last rules > in my filter:INPUT set. > > So it looks to me like I would need to copy all filter:INPUT rules that -j > ACCEPT into mangle:INPUT - because a plain -j NOTRACK would disable tracking > everything, and I can't just do -p tcp --dport 25 -j NOTRACK, because it's a > lot more than just dport 25. NOTRACK is valid in the raw table alone. If you want a generic "NOTRACK and TARPIT everything which is not allowed", then that I think won't go. Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary