On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:53 AM, Girish Venkatachalam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 09:49:31 Nov 17, Martin Schr?der wrote:
>
>> What does it do that pf can't?
>
> Nothing is the short answer.
>
> The long answer is that people keep wanting a tool to protect them from
> the now widespread ssh bruteforce attacks. Sure, the best way to protect
> is using a pf(4) overload rule but having an extra choice is a good
> thing.
>
> Moreover of all the various alternatives that exist for this(refer
> wikipedia), sshguard seems fairly reasonable and sound.
>
> That is why we arrived at this.
^^^^
we?
