If there a better forum for discussing IPFW, please direct me
there.
I have a firewall machine running FreeBSD 4.10 connected
between my DSL modem and my office switch. It does nat and
has a basic set of IPFW rules. It is somewhat locked down
(kern_securelevel = 1, other recommendations typical
Norm Vilmer wrote:
[ ... ]
My question is: from a well configured firewall, Should I be able to
nmap the public interface using a console session on the firewall
itself?
Sure. nmap should return close to zero open ports.
Will allowing this compromising security of the machine?
nmap doesn't
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Norm Vilmer wrote:
[ ... ]
My question is: from a well configured firewall, Should I be able
to nmap the public interface using a console session on the firewall
itself?
Sure. nmap should return close to zero open ports.
Will allowing this compromising security of the
On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:56, Norm Vilmer wrote:
Sorry about the ambiguity, i was referring to loosening my firewall rules
and other settings to allow nmap to work properly. If it should work,
No. Why would you want to deliberately make it easy to make a port scan work?
If you're a script
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 11:22:34PM +0100, Chris Howells wrote:
On Thursday 07 October 2004 21:56, Norm Vilmer wrote:
Sorry about the ambiguity, i was referring to loosening my firewall rules
and other settings to allow nmap to work properly. If it should work,
No. Why would you want to
