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Subject: Re: sshd brute force attempts?
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"Joao Barros" <joao.barros@gmail.com> writes:

> On 9/19/06, Dan Mahoney, System Admin <danm@prime.gushi.org> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I've looked around and found several linux-centric things designed to
>> block brute-force SSH attempts.  Anyone out there know of something a bit
>> more BSD savvy?
>>
>> My best attempt will be to get this:
>>
>> http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/sshdfilter/index_15.html
>>
>> running and adapt it.
>>
>> I've found a few things based on openBSD's pf, but that doesn't seem to be
>> the default in BSD either.

It is one of the several firewalling packet filters that come in the
FreeBSD base system.

>> Any response appreciated.
>>
>
> I'm using BruteForceBlocker quite successfully.
> I take the opportunity to thank danger for it :-)
>
> http://www.freshports.org/security/bruteforceblocker/

Which works with pf, as far as I can see.  There also seems to be
security/bruteblock, which works with ipfw2.