I'm about to upgrade my firewall to Fedora 8. For years I've used pam_abl, http://www.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Pam_abl http://sourceforge.net/projects/pam-abl to blacklist folks trying to breakin. What I want to know is what are possible alternatives that folks use? Now, I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with pam_abl but I just want to take this opportunity to look at other mechanism. Thanks. R.