Dell IDRAC6 User Manual page 360

As login failures accumulate from a specific IP address, they are aged by an
internal counter. When the user logs in successfully, the failure history is
cleared and the internal counter is reset.
NOTE:
When login attempts are refused from the client IP address, some SSH
clients may display the following message: ssh exchange
identification: Connection closed by remote host.
See the iDRAC6 Administrator Reference Guide available on the Dell Support
website at support.dell.com/manuals for a complete list of cfgRacTuning
properties.
Table 22-15 lists the user-defined parameters.
Table 22-15. Login Retry Restriction Properties
Property
cfgRacTuneIpBlkEnable
cfgRacTuneIpBlkFailCount
cfgRacTuneIpBlkFailWindow The timeframe in seconds when the failure attempts
cfgRacTuneIpBlkPenaltyTime Defines the timespan in seconds when all login
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Definition
Enables the IP blocking feature.
When consecutive failures
(cfgRacTuneIpBlkFailCount) from a single IP
address are encountered within a specific amount of
time (cfgRacTuneIpBlkFailWindow), all further
attempts to establish a session from that address are
rejected for a certain timespan
(cfgRacTuneIpBlkPenaltyTime).
Sets the number of login failures from an IP address
before the login attempts are rejected.
are counted. When the failures exceed this limit,
they are dropped from the counter.
attempts from an IP address with excessive failures
are rejected.