diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5824de56..738ef586 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ fail2ban-users mailing list and IRC.
      gh-70. Thanks to iGeorgeX for the idea.
   blotus
    * [96eb8986] ' and " should also be escaped in action tags Closes gh-109
+  Christoph Theis, Nick Hilliard, Daniel Black
+   * [b3bd877d,cde71080] Make syslog -v and syslog -vv formats work on FreeBSD
 - New features:
   Yaroslav Halchenko
    * [9ba27353] Add support for jail.d/{confilefile} and fail2ban.d/{configfile}
diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 92ecf514..b7c65f53 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ server/datetemplate.py
 server/mytime.py
 server/failregex.py
 testcases/files/testcase-usedns.log
+testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-plain.txt
+testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-v.txt
+testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-vv.txt
 testcases/banmanagertestcase.py
 testcases/failmanagertestcase.py
 testcases/clientreadertestcase.py
diff --git a/config/filter.d/common.conf b/config/filter.d/common.conf
index 66b004c6..aafeb5ca 100644
--- a/config/filter.d/common.conf
+++ b/config/filter.d/common.conf
@@ -41,10 +41,16 @@ __kernel_prefix = kernel: \[\d+\.\d+\]
 
 __hostname = \S+
 
+
+# bsdverbose is where syslogd is started with -v or -vv and results in <4.3> or
+# <auth.info> appearing before the host as per testcases/files/logs/bsd/*.
+__bsd_syslog_verbose = (<[^.]+\.[^.]+>)
+
 #
 # Common line prefixes (beginnings) which could be used in filters
 #
-#       [hostname] [vserver tag] daemon_id spaces
-# this can be optional (for instance if we match named native log files)
-__prefix_line = \s*(?:%(__hostname)s )?(?:%(__kernel_prefix)s )?(?:@vserver_\S+ )?%(__daemon_combs_re)s?\s%(__daemon_extra_re)s?\s*
+#      [bsdverbose]? [hostname] [vserver tag] daemon_id spaces
+#
+# This can be optional (for instance if we match named native log files)
+__prefix_line = \s*%(__bsd_syslog_verbose)s?\s*(?:%(__hostname)s )?(?:%(__kernel_prefix)s )?(?:@vserver_\S+ )?%(__daemon_combs_re)s?\s%(__daemon_extra_re)s?\s*
 
diff --git a/testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-plain.txt b/testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-plain.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7dcecb2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-plain.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Apr  2 17:52:55 pancake sshd[55657]: Invalid user oracle from 192.0.2.100
+Apr  2 17:53:01 pancake sshd[55657]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user oracle from test.example.com
+Apr  2 17:53:01 pancake sshd[55657]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user oracle from 192.0.2.100 port 48856 ssh2
diff --git a/testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-v.txt b/testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-v.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..319582ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-v.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+Apr  2 17:51:27 <4.3> pancake sshd[55624]: error: PAM: authentication error for nick from test.example.com
+Apr  2 17:51:32 <4.6> pancake sshd[55628]: Invalid user r00t from 192.0.2.100
+Apr  2 17:51:33 <4.3> pancake sshd[55628]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user r00t from test.example.com
+Apr  2 17:51:33 <4.6> pancake sshd[55628]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user r00t from 192.0.2.100 port 46050 ssh2
+Apr  2 17:51:34 <4.3> pancake sshd[55628]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user r00t from test.example.com
+Apr  2 17:51:34 <4.6> pancake sshd[55628]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user r00t from 192.0.2.100 port 46050 ssh2
+Apr  2 17:51:36 <4.3> pancake sshd[55628]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user r00t from test.example.com
+Apr  2 17:51:36 <4.6> pancake sshd[55628]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for invalid user r00t from 192.0.2.100 port 46050 ssh2
+Apr  2 17:52:06 <4.6> pancake sshd[55647]: Invalid user oracle from 192.0.2.100
+Apr  2 17:52:07 <4.3> pancake sshd[55647]: error: PAM: authentication error for illegal user oracle from test.example.com
diff --git a/testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-vv.txt b/testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-vv.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..74143226
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testcases/files/logs/bsd/syslog-vv.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Mar 19 23:48:18 <auth.info> pancake sshd[55517]: Invalid user r00t from 183.60.159.20
+Mar 19 23:48:20 <auth.info> pancake sshd[55519]: Invalid user r00t from 183.60.159.20
+Mar 19 23:50:03 <auth.info> pancake sshd[55604]: Invalid user http from 183.60.159.20
+Mar 19 23:50:05 <auth.info> pancake sshd[55606]: Invalid user kylix from 183.60.159.20
+Mar 19 23:50:08 <auth.info> pancake sshd[55608]: Invalid user nagios from 183.60.159.20