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Blocking lists of IP addresses using the iptables recent module or ipset and make fail2ban use it.

Posted 04-21-2013 at 07:25 AM by unSpawn
Updated 04-21-2013 at 08:34 AM by unSpawn (//Suggest saving the current rule set)

To combat the common misconception that filling Netfilters filter table INPUT chain is still a valid choice, to show ease of use and for future reference I'll outline how to mass block IP(v4) addresses and how to integrate this in fail2ban.

*This web log post will not explain the fine print on ipset and iptables' {ipt,xt}_recent ('iptables -m recent --help'), nor will it tell you how to install anything, help you configure fail2ban, go into SysV vs BSD init scripts or application...
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Iptables rule traversal: bandwidth at >= 10K of IP addresses

Posted 11-24-2011 at 08:07 PM by unSpawn
Updated 11-24-2011 at 02:53 PM by unSpawn

Anyone who is interested in iptables performance will find Harris, Melara, Smith and Nico's "Performance analysis of the Linux firewall in a host" (2002) and Kadlecsik and Pásztor's "Netfilter Performance Testing" (2005). But what actually is the effect of a large rule set on performance?

The attached PDF I created is not an an exhaustive study of Netfilter performance but shows you Jperf data and pictures (joy!) for plain rule sets, ipset (iphash) and the iptables...
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