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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Jos Chrispijn <kernel@webrz.net>
Subject: Re: Access guard
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On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Jos Chrispijn wrote:

> I am looking for a program that watches login attempts (mail and ssh login) 
> and blocks the ip address after xx failed attempts.
> Currently I am using ipfw - might be great if that program works with ipw 
> too...

security/sshguard.  There are subports for the three stock firewalls, 
too.