2009/7/21 Nathan Eisenberg <nat...@atlasnetworks.us>:
> Some of my pfsense boxes get a lot of SSH bruteforces; is there a package
> like fail2ban out there which could automatically blacklist IPs after x bad
> logins?
>
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Nathan Eisenberg
>
> Sr. Systems Administrator
>
> Atlas Networks, LLC
>
> supp...@atlasnetworks.us
>
> http://support.atlasnetworks.us/portal
>
>
Hello Nathan,

a simple solution w/o an extra pakage is
a) change the ssh-port to something other like 666
b) limit the connection-rate to a preferred useful value in the filter-rules
c) both a) and b)

regards

michael
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