IPFW and Fail2Ban

[Carmel NY]

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 06:49:33 -0600, Adam Vande More
<amvandemore at gmail.com> articulated:

> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Carmel NY <carmel_ny at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I am having an exceedingly hard time finding documentation on
> > Fail2Ban on FreeBSD. In fact, documentation on Fail2Ban seems
> > rather sparse to begin with.
> >
> > In any case, does Fail2Ban work with the IPFW firewall on FreeBSD?
> > Does it do it natively, or does it require a special configuration?
> >
> > I presently have 'denyhost' up and running. If I get Fail2Ban
> > working correctly, I assume I can remove 'denyhost'. Again, I am
> > assuming that the two program would interact badly with each other.
> >
> 
> I don't know anything about fail2ban so can't help you there.  Is
> there something wrong with denyhosts?

Nothing at all, I am just exploring other avenues. Fail2Ban can
potentially block more attacks than denyhosts can though.

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Carmel
carmel_ny at hotmail.com

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