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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Tim Gardner <timg@tpi.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, "Gladewitz,
	Robert \(FH\)" <Robert.Gladewitz@fh-heidelberg.de>
Subject: Re: patch: Port- and netscan detection for netfilter
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:57:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45FACC97.2050701@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45FAC7B7.40806@tpi.com>

Tim Gardner wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> One benefit of being able to block a port scanner is that it reduces or
> stops the amount of ARP traffic that is generated. Depending on your
> internal network design, lots of ARP traffic can have a significant
> impact on WAN links and so on.

Good point.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-16 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-15 13:29 patch: Port- and netscan detection for netfilter Gladewitz, Robert (FH)
2007-03-16 15:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-03-16 16:37   ` Tim Gardner
2007-03-16 16:57     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-03-16 21:32     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-16 22:17       ` Gladewitz, Robert (FH)
2007-03-17  0:37         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-16 21:29   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-16 22:29   ` AW: " Gladewitz, Robert (FH)
2007-03-19  4:59     ` Patrick McHardy
2007-03-19 13:12       ` AW: " Gladewitz, Robert (FH)
2007-03-20 16:30         ` Jan Engelhardt

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