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Cc: Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: SSH Brute Force attempts
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On Monday 29 September 2008, Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com> sent a 
missive stating: 
> Recently I'm getting a lot of brute force attempts on my server, in the
> past I've used various tips and tricks with linux boxes but many of them
> were fairly linux specific.
>
> What do you BSD guys use for this purpose?
>
> If this belongs on -security let me know and I'll ask over there.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Rich

Yeap, -security

However, also try this in pf.conf (specific rules related to this; you'll need 
more for a real pf.conf):

table <badguys> { } persist
block in quick from <badguys>
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port ssh keep state 
(max-src-conn 5, max-src-conn-rate 4/300, overload <badguys> flush global)

This will add "badguys" to the table if they connect more then 4 times in 300 
seconds.

Then use the expiretables port from a cronjob to remove IPs if you feel like 
it.


Henrik
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