I was noticing that a certain IP address had multiple intrusion attempts to my network. After a quick Arin check, the IP was from a foreign country that would be difficult to deal with, so I just decided to kill all traffic from that IP. This could easily be a cat-and-mouse game of me blocking IPs and new ones being used so I figure that I will just block IPs that have a large number of attempted logins, rather than all failed attempts.
Typing in the following will block all communication from the IP (where X.X.X.X is the ip address):
# iptables -A INPUT -s X.X.X.X -j DROP
If you need to unblock it for any reason, typing the following will do so:
# iptables -D INPUT -s X.X.X.X -j DROP