Paul Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have accidentally DoSed stateful firewalls with nmap. If you > originate the scan behind it, then the firewall needs a state table > entry for each port being scanned. When you do a 64k port scan, this > tends to exceed what the fw was designed for.
Well, in my case, the firewall resisted to port scans but went mad much later. I suspect this is a bug, not a mere saturation, because the beast has *much* memory.
