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Please add sshdfilter package to mageia repositories. It's a well known package and good for security on sshd server exposed to Internet.

Present on Mandriva a lot of years ago.

I haven't checked if Mageia has packaged these, but there's several blockers available, ssh-shutout and sshguard come to mind. They are much like sshdfilter, for preventing brute force attacks.

You could also use fail2ban, it'll stop automated brute force attacks by simply dropping an offending IP (temporarily) after a specified number of tries. (default is 3 I believe) A bot will usually drop your server from it's target list if it gets blocked so swiftly.

Noun of then are technically similar to sshdfilter, but fail2ban can work simillar. So I'll use it.

Thank you very much