ann kok wrote on Wednesday 20 June 2007: > Could you give me some rule examples? iptables -A INPUT -s <bad_ip> -j LOG -m limit --limit 1/minute iptables -A INPUT -s <bad_ip> -j REJECT That will log and block packets from <bad_ip>, limiting logging to one entry per minute. > I am not familiar to iptables? I hope you are familiar with ip traffic basics and packet filtering?... # man iptables gives you a lot of information - in case you know network basics. > Where the location of the log fime? By default: /var/log/messages, but you can change the logging facility. -- bye Adalbert