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From: "Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães" <leolistas@solutti.com.br>
To: Thomas Preissler <tomjohn@gmx.de>,
	netfilter-user Mailinglist <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: How to make a computer invisible
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:32:29 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006301c3b778$b22259a0$8b00000a@casa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20031130181240.GD6930@zeus.tpfm.de


    AFAIK, iptables can use some 'layer 2' information such as MAC Address
for doing some filtering in some tables, but it CANT be used for filtering
those 'layer 2' packets. That means iptables CANNOT modify ARP/RARP
behavior.

    Sincerily,
    Leonardo Rodrigues

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Preissler" <tomjohn@gmx.de>
To: "netfilter-user Mailinglist" <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 3:12 PM
Subject: How to make a computer invisible


> Hello folks,
>
> how do I really make a computer totally invisibly as it would be
> when it does not exist?
>
> It is clear, that the simplest solution is to DROP all incoming
> packets, but what's about (R)ARP packets? Can they be blocked anyway?
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-30 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-30 18:12 How to make a computer invisible Thomas Preissler
2003-11-30 18:31 ` Chris Brenton
2003-11-30 19:32 ` Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães [this message]
2003-11-30 18:53   ` Chris Brenton
2003-11-30 19:49   ` Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-01  9:59 ph4ke
2003-12-02  4:40 Babar Kazmi
2003-12-02 15:14 ` Michael Gale
2003-12-02 15:48   ` Chris Brenton
2003-12-02 16:01     ` Michael Gale
2003-12-02 18:09       ` Chris Brenton
2003-12-02 16:26     ` Thomas Preissler
2003-12-02 18:19       ` Chris Brenton
2003-12-02 19:48         ` Arnt Karlsen

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