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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:46:22 -0700 (PDT)
Dave McCammon <davemac11@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Following the advice from here:
> http://isc.sans.org//diary.php?date=2004-09-11.
> 
> What I did was to only allow access to one machine
> through my firewall for the ssh connections (ipfw
> limit). 2 per source address.
> And, for that one machine, I changed the sshd port to
> a different number. 
> I was getting the same brute force attacks but they
> have dropped to nil since.

Yeah, I don't think I have ever seen one on mine ever since I moved it
behind nat and forwarded it from a odd port.