Hi Tim, Good to see your posing here.

On Saturday 12 February 2022 21:29 Tim FitzGeorge wrote:

> This sounds as if it does the same sort of thing as something I had in my first patchset.  I added an extra rule to the input policy chain that added the address to an ipset if the number of dropped packets exceeded a 
threshold.  This runs completely within iptables/ipset.
> 
> iptables( "-I ${autoblacklist}_BLOCK -m set --match-set $autoblacklist src -j SET --add-set $autoblacklist src --exist" );
> iptables( "-I ${autoblacklist}_BLOCK -m set --match-set $autoblacklist dst -j SET --add-set $autoblacklist dst --exist" );
> iptables( "-I POLICYIN 1 -i $red_iface -m hashlimit --hashlimit-mode srcip --hashlimit-above $settings{BLOCK_THRESHOLD}/hour --hashlimit-name $autoblacklist -j SET --add-set $autoblacklist src" );
> 

Aotoblacklist looks like a useful addition. Why did you drop t?


>>>>
>>> There are a couple of points we need to consider:
>>>
>>> 1) IPBlacklist does not work very well if Tim's  ipfblocklist add-on is also 
>>> installed. My view is that the add-on should be removed before IPBlacklist 
>>> can be applied. Can the add-on be automatically removed on installaion and 
>>> should we transfer the settings info from ipfbocklist to ipblacklist?
>> 
>> Yes, in theory we could remove any old files in the updater and install our own ones.
>> 

There are a couple of errors on your uninstall-blocklist.sh script which leaves
some files behind when it is run. I can send you a patch for this if it is of help.

>>> 2) I added a init script to my firewall which doesn't seem to be present on 
>>> Tim's patches. I'm not sure if this is needed as it will be started by fcron 
>>> or changes made in the WUI but won't be instantly available on re-boot. Do 
>>> you have any thoughts on this?
>> 
> 
> I don't think this is needed - the change to the firewall init script should call the ipblacklist script at the correct time.

I hadn't noticed the last few lines in your firewall init script which my init
script duplicates. So I agree my addition isn't needed.

I have started producing the v3 patches requested by the devs, but apart from the couple 
of changes needed to  ipblacklists.dat I think they will be almost identical to your
v2 patches.

Rob