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Gang, For months now, we're all seeing repeated bruteforce attempts on SSH. I've configured my pf install to ratelimit TCP connections to port 22 and to automatically add IP-addresses that connect too fast to a table that's filtered: table <lamers> { } block quick from <lamers> to any pass in quick on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port 22 modulate

With FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, I'm finding significant packet loss (sometimes 85%). If I insert an Intel nic (fxp), there is nil packet loss with similar tests (ping -c 100). re0: <RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xf9fff000-0xf9ffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci1 I have seen a thread on current mentioning similar problems:

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-05:01.telnet Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: telnet client buffer overflows Category: contrib Module: contrib/telnet Announced:

Everyone: We're starting to see a rash of password guessing attacks via SSH on all of our exposed BSD servers which are running an SSH daemon. They're coming from multiple addresses, which makes us suspect that they're being carried out by a network of "bots" rather than a single attacker. But wait... there's more. The interesting thing about these attacks is that