> On 05-25-2022 11:28 am, Hippo Man wrote: > In my case, that is not occurring. After issuing the iptables DROP command, > the client can continue to send more and more login attempts. > Only when the client disconnects does the block of the socket seem to work > for that IP address. I continue to see numerous instances of this behavior.
Having this rule -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT before the drop would have that behavior