Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:13:00 +0100 From: "lars@gmx.at" <lars@gmx.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: limiting brute force attacks Message-ID: <4404849C.50706@gmx.at> In-Reply-To: <44046E9D.9090302@orchid.homeunix.org> References: <20060228152555.GE29050@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <44046E9D.9090302@orchid.homeunix.org>
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Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> Hey people, >> >> 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. > > Hi Michael, > > you can use pf firewall (probably others, too) to limit/refuse > incoming connections. Have a look at Niki Denev's post @stable: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-February/022616.html > > Regards, > > Karol > And maybe you would care to look at the archive where this question has been asked and answered many times. Kind regards lars.
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