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Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:31:41 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Peter Haight <peterh@sapros.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ipfw dynamic entries I don't understand.
Message-ID:  <20011029153140.A224@gohan.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <200110282105.f9SL5ex95768@wartch.sapros.com>; from peterh@sapros.com on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:05:40PM -0800
References:  <200110282105.f9SL5ex95768@wartch.sapros.com>

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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:05:40PM -0800, Peter Haight wrote:
> 
> Someone was portscanning my machine the other day. I have an ipfw setup with
> some dynamic rules and the guy doing the portscanner managed to get some of
> his connections to start as a dynamic rule. I had thought I had it setup so
> that only tcp connections originating from the server would start a
> dynamic rule. I'm using a set of rules which I grew from the 'simple'
> firewall rules (with NAT). This eventually filled up the dynamic rule table
> so that I couldn't make any more connections. Is there some way to fix this?

There is really no way to see what is going on without the _complete_
firewall ruleset.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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