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Date:      Sat, 8 Aug 1998 16:34:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>
To:        kevin <freebsd@vmuniz.ml.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: block port scan
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980808163403.3100E-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9808090022001.428-100000@vmuniz.ml.org>

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	ipfw add deny all from any to any
	That should block ALL packets - are you sure you don't have any
rules before that or a second ethernet card which would respond to
packets?

-- Yan

Jan Koum www.best.com/~jkb jkb@best.com |  "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org  --  The Power to Serve |   to go home in the dark."
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On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, kevin wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>I tried to block port scan attacks from outside network by using ipfw
>but seem doesnt work, even when i applied this rule ( ipfw add deny all
>from any to any). Cant think of other better method to block port scan
>attacks except ipfw. The portscan client i used to try on my box is 'nmap' 
>(http://www.dhp.com/~fyodor/nmap/). 
>
>Any suggestion will be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>kevin
>
>
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