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Re: ipfwadm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Herbert Rosmanith)
Tue May 28 02:04:12 1996

From: Herbert Rosmanith <herp@wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at>
To: jos@xos.nl (Jos Vos)
Date: 	Mon, 27 May 1996 21:50:39 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: mla@gams.co.at, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199605271322.PAA09879@minnie.xos.nl> from "Jos Vos" at May 27, 96 03:22:15 pm

> So, you should use the -k (TCP ACK) option in this command.

I've recently setup a firewall with -k for outside, -y for inside.
It would intrest me if you know of any firewall-testing tools,
that sends packets of form SYN=ACK=1 for trying to initiate a
connection from outside. I'm curious if the networking code accepts
or drops such packets.


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