At 03:54 AM 1/23/2004, Jan Koetze wrote:
>option to stop portscans the way portsentry does or at least drop the 
>request for a few minutes when a portscan occurs. With the current release 
>people can scan forever.

I believe we had this discussion a while back.  Most "best practices" would 
have an intrusion detection system (IDS) on a separate machine than your 
firewall.  The firewall should be as simple as possible and be as reliable 
as an anvil.

The more features, the more potential exploits...


          -crl
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