patch: Port- and netscan detection for netfilter

Patrick McHardy kaber at trash.net
Fri Mar 16 17:57:59 CET 2007


Tim Gardner wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> One benefit of being able to block a port scanner is that it reduces or
> stops the amount of ARP traffic that is generated. Depending on your
> internal network design, lots of ARP traffic can have a significant
> impact on WAN links and so on.

Good point.



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