# Mosquitto (MQTT) - Client connection from \[ip address\] denied access by tcpd

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**Tags:** mqtt\
**Created:** [16 May 2022 14:53 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mosquitto-mqtt-client-connection-from-ip-address-denied-access-by-tcpd/62699 "2022-05-16T14:53:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [16 May 2022 22:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/mosquitto-mqtt-client-connection-from-ip-address-denied-access-by-tcpd/62699/5 "2022-05-16T22:33:32Z")

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Hmm, I wonder what you are doing. My live home automation system shows 8 connections only.

Presumably you must have a lot of directly connected devices? Are they perhaps sometimes disconnecting and not restarting with a clean session?

Oh, I forgot, I've still got 5 other connections on my old Pi2 broker. That is bridged to my live server. Thought 8 seemed a bit low 😸

What version of Mosquitto do you have installed?

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