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Peter Matulis <pmatulis@sympatico.ca> writes:

> You can run OpenBSD's pf in combination with authpf.  This mechanism 
> will alter firewall rules based on successful SSH logins.

authpf is great, but even overload rules can go a long way towards
eliminating the original poster's problem, see eg the suggestions in
my tutorial at http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html
(http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/ for the full manuscript in a variety
of formats).

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