Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:45:11 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Peter Pauly <ppauly@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic Firewall software? Message-ID: <1926E4EDB5AD62F0535B1101@utd49554.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <eefbdb7204101412073ecd8ae3@mail.gmail.com> References: <200410131404.i9DE4ONU047345@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> <4ACDF26414DB010421A6AD6C@utd49554.utdallas.edu> <eefbdb7204101412073ecd8ae3@mail.gmail.com>
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Frankly I hadn't thought of that. You can configure portsentry to monitor any port *and* to ignore certain hosts, so I would think it could monitor port 22 although I haven't tested it personally. --On Thursday, October 14, 2004 02:07:24 PM -0500 Peter Pauly <ppauly@gmail.com> wrote: > Doesn't Portsentry ignore ports that have a service bound to them like > the SSH daemon? In that case, it wouldn't help Brian's problem, since > ssh is running, portsentry would ignore any attacks to port 22, right? Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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