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From: Antony Stone <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
Subject: Re: TCP SYN FIN
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:41:39 +0100
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On Friday 02 July 2004 1:27 pm, Steve Comfort wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm running Nessus to check my firewall rules, and its telling me :
>
> "remote host does not drop TCP SYN packets with the FIN flag set .... "
>
> I've tried adding the following rule :
>
> $ipt -A INPUT -i $iface -d $network -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,FIN SYN, FIN
> -j DROP

What does the variable $network corresopond to in the above rule?

Does the address you are sending the SYN-FIN packets to fall within this 
range?

If you do a "iptables -L INPUT -nvx" do the packet & byte counters show any 
packets matching the above rule?

Regards,

Antony.

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