How are people handling network attacks?

[dhml at comcast.net (David Hummel)]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 01:29:53PM -0500, steve at horne.homelinux.net wrote:
> 
> I have a cable modem connected to a "firewall"  -- slackware based,
> 2.4.22, iptables.  Recently I've seen an increase in the number of
> dictionary-based attacks. Log fills up with stuff like this:
>
> Feb 25 20:01:56 horne sshd[2407]: Failed password for root from 61.177.137.170 port 58956 ssh2
> 
> Do I have any other options?

You can also disable password logins and use public key authentication.

-David