[ale] firewall testing

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Sun Mar 23 13:11:18 EST 2003


Turn off that feature temporarily and use nmap to test.


On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 12:50, Jason Vinson wrote:
> I am no security expert, but I would like to test out a firewall that I 
> am configuring.  From what i gather, ipchains and iptables both block 
> any ip (or maybe even mac address) that tries to do a port scan.  My 
> question is how can i effectively test this firewall without being 
> locked out of the machine afterward?
> 
> TIA,
> Jason
> 
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