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Date:      Mon, 19 Feb 2001 23:42:59 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Brent <bierblb@netins.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Port Scanning
Message-ID:  <20010219234259.C77228@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <CLEBKGOHKNELHPEDDJJIAEJOCJAA.bierblb@netins.net>; from bierblb@netins.net on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:12:32AM -0600
References:  <CLEBKGOHKNELHPEDDJJIAEJOCJAA.bierblb@netins.net>

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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:12:32AM -0600, Brent wrote:
> I have a couple questions:
>=20
> 1) What does these errors mean? I am getting quite a few.
>=20
> icmp-response bandwidth limit 216/200 pps
> icmp-response bandwidth limit 231/200 pps

Search the mailing list archives for a description of what's going on.

> 2) What are some good programs to use to watch for ping floods and port
> scans?  I use portsentry currently, but that doesn't do very well in the
> ping flood area as it does in the port scanning, since it just watches for
> traffic over certain ports.

You can't go past snort, IMO. Use the vision.conf file downloaded from
www.whitehats.com/ids

Kris

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