limiting brute force attacks

[Daniel Gerzo]

Hello Michael,

Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 4:25:55 PM, you contributed this to our collective wisdom:

> 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.

maybe you would be interested in ports/security/bruteforceblocker ?

> Thanks,
> Mike

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Sincerely,
  Daniel Gerzo