On Wednesday 05 November 2003 2:44 pm, Leandro Takashi Hirano wrote: > > 2. One packet per second will be ACCEPTed. What happens to the other > > packets (and whether anything gets returned to the scanner) depends on > > the other rules following this one in the chain. > > OK, one packet per second will be ACCEPTed, but aren´t the other packets > going to be DROPed? As I said, that depends on what rules follow this one in the chain. You can DROP the packets, you can REJECT the packets - you can even ACCEPT them if you want to! > > 3. The rule only applies to packets with RST set, and SYN, ACK, FIN > > clear. Therefore it will incfluence the outcome of a RST port scan, > > but have no effect on a FIN scan, or a SYN scan. > > Do I have also to create a rule for FIN scan and SYN scan? If you want to block those types of scan, then yes. > Do you have some port scanners rules to show me? (and other protection > rules too) Tell me what you want to do and I may be able to show you a rule which does it. Personally I simply DROP all packets which I don't want to allow. > > I think in order to answer your question we first need to know: > > > > - what response do you want someone to get when they attempt to port > > scan your system? > > no answer.... Okay. Antony. -- I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. - Douglas Noel Adams Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.