Tarpit Action for Fail2ban with rate limit

iptables-tarpit.conf

# Fail2Ban configuration file
#
# Author: Cyril Jaquier
# Modified: Yaroslav O. Halchenko <[email protected]>
#                       made active on all ports from original iptables.conf
# Modified: Antoine Aflalo <[email protected]>
#                       Used the iptables-allports.conf as base for TARPIT.
#
#


[Definition]

# Option:  actionstart
# Notes.:  command executed once at the start of Fail2Ban.
# Values:  CMD
#
actionstart = iptables -N fail2ban-<name>
              iptables -A fail2ban-<name> -j RETURN
              iptables -I <chain> -p <protocol> -j fail2ban-<name>
               # set up TARPIT chain with rate limit
              iptables -N TAR
              iptables -A TAR -m limit --limit 10/sec -j TARPIT --tarpit  -p tcp
              iptables -A TAR -j DROP
               # set up from the static file
              cat /etc/fail2ban/ip.blocklist.<name> |grep -v ^\s*#|awk '{print $1}' | while read IP; do iptables -I fail2ban-<name> 1 -s $IP -j TAR; done

# Option:  actionstop
# Notes.:  command executed once at the end of Fail2Ban
# Values:  CMD
#
actionstop = iptables -D <chain> -p <protocol> -j fail2ban-<name>
             iptables -F fail2ban-<name>
             iptables -X fail2ban-<name>
             iptables -F TAR
             iptables -X TAR

# Option:  actioncheck
# Notes.:  command executed once before each actionban command
# Values:  CMD
#
actioncheck = iptables -n -L <chain> | grep -q 'fail2ban-<name>[ \t]'

# Option:  actionban
# Notes.:  command executed when banning an IP. Take care that the
#          command is executed with Fail2Ban user rights.
# Tags:    See jail.conf(5) man page
# Values:  CMD
#
actionban = iptables -I fail2ban-<name> 1 -s <ip> -j TAR
            # also put into the static file to re-populate after a restart
            ! grep -Fq <ip> /etc/fail2ban/ip.blocklist.<name> && echo "<ip> # fail2ban/$( date '+%%Y-%%m-%%d %%T' ): auto-add for repeat offender" >> /etc/fail2ban/ip.blocklist.<name>

# Option:  actionunban
# Notes.:  command executed when unbanning an IP. Take care that the
#          command is executed with Fail2Ban user rights.
# Tags:    See jail.conf(5) man page
# Values:  CMD
#
#actionunban = iptables -D fail2ban-<name> -s <ip> -j TAR
actionunban = /bin/true

[Init]

# Default name of the chain
#
name = default

# Option:  protocol
# Notes.:  internally used by config reader for interpolations.
# Values:  [ tcp | udp | icmp | all ] Default: tcp
#
protocol = tcp

# Option:  chain
# Notes    specifies the iptables chain to which the fail2ban rules should be
#          added
# Values:  STRING  Default: INPUT
chain = INPUT