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"jdow" <jdow@earthlink.net> writes:

> Which tool would be able to do this sort of thing best and how might it
> have been done.

PF has most of the bits you need built in, see eg
http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html (part of a PF
tutorial).  

For weeding out old table entries, you might want to look at
the expiretable utility (http://expiretable.fnord.se/).

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