Mark Stodola wrote:
> Sorry I haven't been following this whole thing, but I caught the last 
> few.  As far as a real-time solution, I use iptables. 
[...]

Hello,

Sorry if I answer late but I would like to mention that we are very
happy with pam_abl in order to protect an exposed SSH server :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-abl
http://www.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Pam_abl

Lightweight, easy to install, efficient... Thanks to Andy Armstrong

JM

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