Messages in this thread | | | From | Matteo Croce <> | Date | Tue, 7 Jul 2015 17:27:27 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] add stealth mode |
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2015-07-07 10:07 GMT+02:00 Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>: > > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2015, at 21:44, Matteo Croce wrote: >> 2015-07-06 12:49 GMT+02:00 <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>: >> > On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 10:56:01 +0200, Matteo Croce said: >> >> Add option to disable any reply not related to a listening socket, >> >> like RST/ACK for TCP and ICMP Port-Unreachable for UDP. >> >> Also disables ICMP replies to echo request and timestamp. >> >> The stealth mode can be enabled selectively for a single interface. >> > >> > A few notes..... >> > >> > 1) Do you have an actual use case where an iptables '-j DROP' isn't usable? >> >> If you mean using a default DROP policy and allowing only the traffic >> do you want, >> then the use case is where the port can change at runtime and you may not >> want >> to update the firewall every time > > Can't you use socket match in netfilter to accomplish exactly that?
You mean the owner --uid match? Yes sort of, but my was a different goal, I want just to disable any kind of reply from a specific interface (usually WAN) unless there is a listening socket, to mitigate port scanning and flood attacks without having a firewall.
Obviously you can do it with a firewall, but why do we have /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all when we can drop ICMP echoes?
-- Matteo Croce OpenWrt Developer
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