01 January 2012 ~ 0 Comments

iPad drops WiFi connection to Verizon FiOS Actiontec Router

TweetI got my wife an iPad 2 for Christmas and she soon started complaining about the Wifi dropping its connection. I suggested she try turning off the “auto join” wifi setting, but that didn’t help. She’d be doing something and get the “Sorry, there’s no internet connection” error every 5-10 minutes. We’ve had FiOS for [...]

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11 May 2009 ~ 0 Comments

iptables rules for rate-limiting SSH connections

TweetThis is what I use on my CentOS boxes/VMs, it rate-limits the connections and also rate-limits the log messages (to prevent attacks that attempt to fill up the server’s disk). iptables -F iptables -X iptables -N LOGDROP #Create the LOGDROP chain iptables -A LOGDROP -m limit –limit 1/s -j LOG –log-prefix “LOGDROP: ” # Rate-limit [...]

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