Hi Pieter,
Indeed. Now I am wondering whether I can simply add more relaxed limit-burst options in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 or whether I should first lookup the configuration file that sets the burst too strict (currently I don't know where the property is set, I guess it has never been set by explicitly by the former administrator).
Could you please advice me about that?
--> You can find out which files belong to the SuSEfirewall2 package with this command: rpm -ql SuSEfirewall2 Then I did a "grep -nrHi rate" in "/etc/sysconfig/" which revealed the file "/etc/sysconfig/scripts/SuSEfirewall2-qdisc". Some kind of bandwidth limiting for SSH is done around line 71. "man iptables" lists the "--limit rate" and "--limit-burst" commands. However, I did not find these commands easily. Don't know where they are issued. That's all I can help you with since I'm not a firewall expert. Best regards and good luck ! Armin Dr. Armin Schoech Carl-Zeiss-Strasse 33/1 D-89551 Koenigsbronn / GERMANY WWW: http://armin.schoech.de/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org