server questions

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday, May 12, 2011, Andrew Gould wrote:
> My chief concern with iptables is learning how to deal with brute
> force attacks on the ssh port.  In PF you can write rules that will
> blacklist an ip address after a specified rate of connection attempts
> (5 attempts in 3 seconds, for example).  I could change the ssh port,
> of course, but then I'd have to find another open port through my
> employer's firewall  (port 16 is blocked).

I use a high port....  > 10000