When I connect to my ISP, sometimes I apparently get assigned an IP address that has recently been used by a P2P file sharing user, hence there are many sites still trying to connect to it.
Just like "even after the authorities raided the crackhouse, the phone kept ringing off the hook." Yes it doesn't impact me one bit, but just shows up disturbingly in the icewm monitor window. I can see them with # iftop -nP -i ppp0 My question is is there some program that I can use to politely inform these connections that "Johnny has already left for school, so please stop ringing his IP address. I'm sorry he didn't properly say goodbye last time. Maybe his computer fell off the desk." OK, I tried REJECT instead of DROP: iptables -F; iptables -X iptables -N b iptables -A b -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A b -m state --state NEW ! -i ppp0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A b -j LOG -m limit #iptables -A b -j REJECT iptables -A b -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -j b iptables -A FORWARD -j b but I don't think all the other parties got the message. Sure, I can disconnect my ADSL modem, wait a minute and reconnect, and probably get a clean line, but is there any smarter way to tell those P2P connections to give up trying, instead of waiting for them to slowly one by one give up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org