Thanks, GIJOE.

The reason for asking is that currently I am banning certain sub-sect IPs through.htaccess. Sub-sect IP is an issue with some European and Asian IPs - I have to ban 12.34.[5-6][0-9] in order to spare those IPs in the range of 12.34.[1-4][0-9], because they may well be allocated in two different countries. I thought maybe Protector could also do as .htaccess does, since now BAD IPs are text-file based.

Bad counts for Crawlers
The default is 30 - is this number per a minute? I just checked one of my logs - one of googlebots from a single IP was banned because of the high load, even though Googlebots have been classified as safe crawlers. Should I increase this to 60?