Re: Portsentry and iptables

["Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz indahaus com>]

At 9/29/2001 12:44 PM +0530, you wrote:
> IPtables and Portsentry serve slightly different purposes.
> IPtables is used for firewalling, routing, packet filtering and a lot 
> other purposes.
> Portsentry is used for detecting port scanning and for denying access to 
> IPs from which port scanning has been tried.

OK.

> If you have firewalled all your ports successfully using IPtables and if 
> there are no holes in your firewall then I guess you can do away with 
> Portsentry.

"If" being the operative word here, and "what if" being the reason you 
usually keep portsentry running anyway. :)


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz indahaus com