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List:       poptop-server
Subject:    Re: [Poptop-server] Using maxfail in options.pptpd to restrict failed login attempts
From:       James Cameron <james.cameron () hp ! com>
Date:       2004-12-23 22:59:21
Message-ID: 20041223225921.GD6608 () hp ! com
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No, maxfail will be of no avail because it resets the counter on each
connection attempt.  maxfail is purely pppd.

There's an /etc/ppp/auth-up script executed.  It doesn't seem to have
ipparam sent to it though.  See man pppd.

A more thorough engineered solution might be to write a pppd plugin to
handle it, or even code in pptpd to handle the situation.

I'm curious as to why you need to do this; perhaps there's an alternate
solution.  e.g. you could use iptables to restrict the rate of
connection.

-- 
James Cameron                         http://quozl.netrek.org/
HP Open Source, Volunteer             http://opensource.hp.com/
PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/


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