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Alternation(1): - warning at least

- or some action taken against the IP that is attacking you.

Alternation(2) - real time: best effort. Data from the network layer. Drop all the packets from a specific IP: so netfilter for that maybe dangerous. 'cause the pirate may have faked one of your internal IPs and then you are actually cutting of one of your local network connections.

- run time: