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Take a look at fail2ban
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 27, 2007 03:36 AM<a href="http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" title="fail2ban.org">http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page</a fail2ban.org>
This can be used to watch any service log. Out of the box it will watch ssh. You can easily configure the ban period and the number of failed attempts before an IP is banned.
It's easy to install (I knwo there are apt packages for Ubuntu).
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