>> I've since recently put my board back on port 23... and I now recall    
    >> why I took it off of it. I keep getting all of these connections from    
    >> hackers, I take it. Anyone know of a way to filter these bad    
    >> connections?   
      
    >> I've tried Janis' iptables suggestion, but it isn't working.   
      
   Have a look at fail2ban www.fail2ban.org  claims to be a "poor man's ids".   
      
   I installed it from the yum repos on CentOS7 & configured it for 3 attempts.   
   If you fail to login for 3 attempts you are banned for 15 minutes. All activity   
   is logged. Luckily I was smart enough to setup several local accounts    
   so when I forget the admin password I was still able to reset the timer for   
   that   
   acount via sudo...   
      
   I like it lots!   
      
       
      
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