There are three variants: sshguard, sshguard-ipfw, sshguard-pf . Use "sshguard-ipfw" iff you have IPFW enabled as firewall for your host. Use "sshguard-pf" iff you have PF enabled as firewall for your host. Use "sshguard" otherwise. You can install a pre-compiled version with: pkg_add -r sshguard (or sshguard-ipfw or sshguard-pf) Or you can compile the software yourself from the ports tree: cd /usr/ports/security/sshguard (or sshguard-ipfw or sshguard-pf) make install