Alert
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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: