OpenSSH MaxStartup

[Donny Jekels]

I have searched google dry.

who can tell me what the values mean in the setting
MaxStartup vv:xx:yy
vv = ??
xx = ??
yy = ??

Thank you
Donny

[James A. Donovan]

$ man sshd_config
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MaxStartups
Specifies the maximum number of concurrent unauthenticated con-
nections to the sshd daemon. Additional connections will be
dropped until authentication succeeds or the LoginGraceTime
expires for a connection. The default is 10.

Alternatively, random early drop can be enabled by specifying the
three colon separated values â start:rate:fullâ (e.g.,
"10:30:60"). sshd will refuse connection attempts with a proba-
bility of â rate/100â (30%) if there are currently â startâ (10)
unauthenticated connections. The probability increases linearly
and all connection attempts are refused if the number of unau-
thenticated connections reaches