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From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
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Subject: Re: limiting brute force attacks
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> I've seen some efforts from the netfilter community on Linux to provide a
> means to limit brute-force attacks via firewall rules. Can anyone suggest a
> way to do the same on FreeBSD?
>
> I'm primarily interested in limiting attacks on sshd. I already use RSA auth,
> but I like defense-in-depth.

http://www.pjkh.com/wiki/ssh_monitor