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From: Ruprecht Helms <rhelms@mymail.ch>
To: Elvir Kuric <omasnjak@yahoo.com>
Cc: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: Preventing port scanning using iptables ?
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:14:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D4456C.5050203@mymail.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060805062309.43523.qmail@web56213.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Elvir Kuric schrieb:
> Hi all, 
>  I am trying to implement proper firewall to my
> network using iptables 
> and I  have to admit that I am amazing by amount of
> iptables features 
> it offers.
>  But I can not understand is there any way to prevent
> port scanning 
> using iptables? 

Yes by checking the tcp-flags. The connections are not established
because only the port is checked if it is reachabele.

Regards,
Ruprecht

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-05  7:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-05  6:23 Preventing port scanning using iptables ? Elvir Kuric
2006-08-05  7:14 ` Ruprecht Helms [this message]
2006-08-05  8:00   ` Elvir Kuric
2006-08-05 13:41   ` Sietse van Zanen
2006-08-06  9:26     ` former03 | Baltasar Cevc
2006-08-06 11:15       ` Pascal Hambourg
2006-08-09  2:29         ` Michael Rash
2006-08-09  8:47       ` Marc Haber
2006-08-10  1:28         ` R. DuFresne

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