SSHD_config question

[Knapp]

Subject: SSHD_config question
MaxStartups

Specifies the maximum number of concurrent unauthenticated connections to
the SSH 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 "start:rate:full" (e.g. "10:30:60"). sshd(8) will
refuse connection attempts with a probability of "rate/100" (30%) if there
are currently "start" (10) unauthenticated connections. The probability
increases linearly and all connection attempts are refused if the number of
unauthenticated connections reaches "full" (60).

What the heck does this mean???? it is from the Man command.
The first one I think I understand. No more than X people can be doing
sign-in at the same time, right? But the second??? Why do we need it? What
does it do?

Thanks

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Douglas E Knapp

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