You definately want to read the documentation that goes with
portsentry. there are alot of settings you can configure, some of
which could allow you to DoS yourself quite nicely. Very good
tool... but seriously Read The Fine Manual.
Chris Williamson writes:
> Hi All
>
> I have Red Hat 7 with ipchains, logcheck and portsentry.
>
> I have installed portsentry as an rpm (portsentry-1.0-4.i386.rpm), everything seems
>to be preconfigured for me but I am not sure if it is working, can anyone tell me if
>there is any configuration that needs to be done on this for basic functionality.
>
> I have tried port scanning my Linux box from a Micro$oft box using ws_ping propack
>but the portsentry does not pick this up, maybe this is not a great scanner.
>
>
> Thanks
> Chris Williamson
> Jhb, South Africa
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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have Red Hat 7 with ipchains, logcheck and
> portsentry.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have installed portsentry as an rpm
> (portsentry-1.0-4.i386.rpm), everything seems to be preconfigured for me but I
> am not sure if it is working, </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>can anyone tell me
> if there is any configuration that needs to be done on this for basic
> functionality.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have tried port scanning my Linux box from a
> Micro$oft box using ws_ping propack but the portsentry does not pick this up,
> maybe this is not a great scanner. </FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Chris Williamson</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jhb, South Africa</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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