On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, vergel wrote:

> I'm going to use PPPoE to connect to the net..... And even on my win box
> using Zone Alarm I get people randomly scanning ports and stuff....  Is
> there something I can build on the Linux box that will keep me alerted about
> stuff like that? What would be a good only source to learn about that stuff?

Portsentry and snort both notify you of portscans and remote exploit
attempts.

> a friend of mine suggested ipfwadm.   whats the opinion on that?

ipfwadm is the firewall tool for 2.0.x kernels. ipchains is the firewall
tool for 2.2.x kernels. iptables is the firewall tool for 2.4.x kernels.

thornton



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