Strange firewall non-function or nag-ware?
Hi!
Last night a friend was showing me the latest and greatest sniffing
toy, Ether-Boy", which he was running from behind a Debian
Masquerading firewall.
The Windows Sniffer thing showed a concerted attack on his LAN thru
the firewall. Parotociols being used included lots of Appltalk and
ICMP.
The Firewall in question has a kernel with only IP, Firewallwalling
and masqerading, _no_ appletalk.
Plus we can't ping thru the thing, so I have severe doubts as to
whether it was real. Running sniffit outside the firewall showed no
traffic to the "offender" excpet if we pinged it or ran at it's ports.
I suspect that the "Ether Boy" is nasty nagware. Or is the firewall
broken?
Opinions welcome. Expert opinions encouraged.
John F.
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