Re: [fw-wiz] stealth ports and IDS

From: Zen (zen@kill-9.it)
Date: 10/03/02 

From: Zen <zen@kill-9.it>
To: James X <scouser@paradise.net.nz>
Date: Thu Oct  3 11:02:03 2002

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:29:21PM +1200, James X wrote:
> address or stack. I do not know of a way of acheiving this using linux
> or netBSD etc.. and without it I would feel rather vulnerable. To help

        You can ifconfig the interface giving 0.0.0.0 address.

> mitigate it I am looking at hardware network taps (read only). These
> could be the answere but are not that cheap (kind of the whole idea).

        Just crimp an ethernet cable with only the rx couple.

HTH, 

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