pf suggestions for paced attack

Balázs Mátéffy repcsike at gmail.com
Mon May 3 17:02:44 UTC 2010


Hi,

I'm interested, by the way, is there a max size limit to a pf table? Mine
always stops working at 2megs...


On 3 May 2010 18:48, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:39 AM, John <john at starfire.mn.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi, Matthew.  Indeed, yes, you may not recall, but my rules are
> > based on a set that I originally got from you, and I do, in fact,
> > have a white list, which I should have mentioned, but some of my
> > users are "road warriors" and could be coming from virtually anywhere.
> > You're right, though - it's time to look into alternatives to
> > password-based authenticaion.  I think I've taken password-based
> > protection and rate adaptive rules to their logical limit.
> >
> >
> What's wrong with denyhosts?  Key-based authentication has it's own set
> pitfalls.  I'm far more likely to lose my usb stick than my password.  I
> imagine there are other like me.
>
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> Adam Vande More
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