[Fedora] Re: Blocking SSH ... BUT...

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

Mike Wright wrote:
> Allow your subnets before the above rules.  Here's a sample rule:
>
> -A INPUT -s 10.0.0.0/24 -p tcp --dport 22 --syn -j ACCEPT
> # subnet    ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> You'd need one rule for each subnet.
>
> hth

    Awesome Mike, that worked like a charm.  Thanks!

    Somewhat related question: would the same rules work for ftp attacks 
as well?  Obviously replacing the port number with 21, but would they 
work?  Duplicate the lines, replace port and hope that ftp also gets 
curbed the same way?

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