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Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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Howdy Mick! |
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> I can't add anything about conntrackd, because I have not used it, but |
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> I'd recommend to use the limit module and set it to something sensible |
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> (e.g. 3/minute) when logging invalid packets, if you want to avoid |
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> bogging down your fw. So use something like: |
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Well, between needing a firewall that does not fail (HA via redundancy), |
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and a need to get 'up 2 speed' on the latest with iptables, I'm taking the |
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plunge here... |
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conntrackd provide what looks like a cool roll over mechanism similar |
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to OpenBSD's carp and pfsync. |
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http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html |
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You may get a few private email, if I do not find a forum for ideas and |
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experimentation...... |
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> -m limit --limit 1/minute |
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> You could also add --limit-burst in the same fashion again to limit |
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> DoS attacks, at least on the Internet facing NICs/ports. |
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Nice to know. |
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Thanks Mick, |
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James |
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