Please Help! How to STOP them...

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

Jay Chandler <chandler at chapman.edu> writes:

> Please, please, PLEASE RTFM.  If that's too much to ask, try taking a 
> class, hiring a consultant, or using a more user-friendly OS.

FreeBSD *is* user friendly.  The simple (and fun to watch!) solution
involves using PF (not sure if this can be easily done with the other
firewalls FreeBSD has on tap) with 'overload' rules, ie
http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html

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Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
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