Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2459 mails)

[Adam Jimerson <vendion@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 10 March 2008 09:10:22 am Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) <otto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [03-10-08 04:16]:
> > I'm a bit confused with Susefirewall. I have had a number of robot
> > attacks against sshd so I set the following rule in SuSefirewall to
> > limit the number of allowable sshd logins per 60 second period:
>
> look at the packages:  fail2ban
>                        denyhosts
>
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/monitoring/SUSE_Linux_10.
> 1 and
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/utilities/SUSE_Linux_10.


I use fail2ban and am happy with it, but have you also considered making your 
rule through iptables?  Not sure if SuSEfirewall acts as a front end for 
iptables, but it can't help to give it a try.