One short question , do you mean clients that send you 2 or more SYN packets in the same session ? Or just send ANY 2 packets in the same "session" , or even "worse" 2 times whatever the packet type ? Best regards André Paulsberg-Csibi Senior Network Engineer Fault Handling EVRY Nordic Operations AS andre.paulsberg-csibi@xxxxxxxx M +47 9070 5988 -----Original Message----- From: netfilter-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Sent: 26. august 2015 14:22 To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Accept clients that were seen at least twice only Hello everybody, I am looking for a way to accept traffic from clients only if they were seen at least twice. This shall be part of a firewall concept which protects the target from random floods where source IPs are usually only seen once since they are random. I cannot use the --state ESTABLISHED here because this requires a complete handshake (for TCP). I'm okay with the first packet not matching this rule as long as the 2nd one does. I'm looking forward to reading your ideas! Best, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ��.n��������+%������w��{.n����z���)��jg��������ݢj����G�������j:+v���w�m������w�������h�����٥