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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2001 03:21:11 -0500
From:      "Dennis Jun" <dennisjun@home.com>
To:        "Pavol Adamec" <pavol_adamec@tempest.sk>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: TCP_DROP_SYNFIN doesn't work?
Message-ID:  <009101c07f95$ca3501a0$0300a8c0@wilma>
References:  <004a01c07f90$29bcef80$0300a8c0@wilma> <3A63FFF9.8E64A6AA@tempest.sk> <007901c07f93$9fea33e0$0300a8c0@wilma> <3A6402C6.98E6EDE@tempest.sk>

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Damn! I didn't realise I had to enable that in rc.conf. Hah! Now how would
I implement this change without actually rebooting the whole box? or
dropping to single user mode and going back to multi?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pavol Adamec" <pavol_adamec@tempest.sk>
To: "Dennis Jun" <dennisjun@home.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:13 AM
Subject: Re: TCP_DROP_SYNFIN doesn't work?


> You also add
>
> tcp_drop_synfin="YES"
>
> to your /etc/rc.conf because default setting from /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> is
>
> tcp_drop_synfin="NO"        # Set to YES to drop TCP packets with
> SYN+FIN
>
> Paul
>
> Dennis Jun wrote:
> >
> > I have also implemented TCP_RESTRICT_RST as well.
> >
> > # TCP_DROP_SYNFIN adds support for ignoring TCP packets with SYN+FIN.
This
> > # prevents nmap et al. from identifying the TCP/IP stack,...
> >
> > That is from LINT. Thus the reason for my question. My friend just
> > upgraded his Linux kernel to 2.4.0 with the same option and it works
for
> > him. Thus I'm suspecting I'm doing something wrong but I wanted to
know if
> > others had this problem as well.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pavol Adamec" <pavol_adamec@tempest.sk>
> > To: "Dennis Jun" <dennisjun@home.com>
> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 3:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: TCP_DROP_SYNFIN
> >
> > > I'm not sure what you excatly ment by that but:
> > >
> > > TCP_DROP_SYNFIN forces kernel to drop packets with BOTH SYN and
> > > FIN flags set. nmap -sS is a "half-open scan" - it send packets
> > > with only SYN flag set.
> > > What you likely want is TCP_RESTRICT_RST - not to emit RST for SYN
> > > packets to non-listening ports.
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > Dennis Jun wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have compiled this option in my kernel on 3 differents FreeBSD
boxes
> > > > (4.1.1-STABLE, 4.1-RELEASEs) and I have noticed that it doesn't
work
> > all
> > > > the time. Specifically with this scan  nmap -v -O -sS .  Is it
just me
> > or
> > > > does this not work for other people as well?
> > > >
> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
> > >
> > > Dennis Jun wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have compiled this option in my kernel on 3 differents FreeBSD
boxes
> > > > (4.1.1-STABLE, 4.1-RELEASEs) and I have noticed that it doesn't
work
> > all
> > > > the time. Specifically with this scan  nmap -v -O -sS .  Is it
just me
> > or
> > > > does this not work for other people as well?
> > > >
> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
> > >
> > >
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> > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
>



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