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From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>
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Subject: Re: How to Stop Bruit Force ssh Attempts?
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> In my auth log I see alot of bruit force attempts to login via ssh.  Is there 
> a way I can have the box automatically kill any tcp/ip connectivity to hosts 
> that try and fail a given number of times?  Is there a port or something that 
> I can install to give this kind of protection.  I'm still kind of a FreeBSD 
> newbie.

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

Among a lot of others...