How can I limit the number of Telnet sessions coming from the same remote system?

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The xinetd daemon is useful in configuring access controls, enhanced logging, binding, redirection, and resource utilization controls for the Telnet service and other network services.

The /etc/xinetd.d/telnet file can be used to set the maximum number of concurrent telnet instances or sessions from the same source IP address. Using the per_source ...

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