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Re: iptables: identify host with DSL/Fritzbox



Ahh, thanks Keith!

This sound great:

> An OpenVPN connection can be separately firewalled on your server.

Thanks a lot!

I'll read the OpenVPN docs in more deep now ;-)


    Sebastian

Keith Edmunds <kae@midnighthax.com> writes:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:39:22 +0100, sebastian_rose@gmx.de said:
>
>> Wouldn't this mean to run a second sshd (with the certificate)?
>
> No.
>
>> The sense of my little defense program is to avoid brute force attacks
>> too. How would I do that in that case?
>
> No change.
>
> An OpenVPN connection can be separately firewalled on your server. You
> could allow SSH access to all connections coming in over the VPN. No need
> for a second sshd, and no change to the scanning for other intruders
> (except don't block port 1194 UDP, which is OpenVPN's default port,
> obviously).
>
>
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