Re: fooling nmap

2004-09-04 Thread Colin Alston
ple attempt the wrong attacks. I still dont see any use, or need to implement something of that nature(Given that more features can = more bugs). The point of the comment "Security by obscurity is no security at all" is that bugs and exploits should be FIXED and PATCHED not HIDDEN. Rega

Re: fooling nmap

2004-09-04 Thread Colin Alston
reeBSD-20030924 ^ banners all over need to be changed but nevertheless, it'd be a step in the right direction in my opinion A great man once said to me "Security by obscurity is, after all, no security at all." This is very much a step in the wr

Re: fooling nmap

2004-09-04 Thread Colin Alston
lease elaborate on why you don't think its a good idea, if thats the case.. and feel free to give any comments/suggestions if you think it is a good idea as well. =) Val What exactly is the point/benefit of such a change? -- Colin Alston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> About the use of langua

Re: [FreeBSD 5.2] Bandwith and packet throttling

2004-08-15 Thread Colin Alston
r you've just told it to allow all traffic anyway? man ipfw -- Colin Alston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Quantum Logic Chicken: The chicken is distributed probabalistically on all sides of the road until you observe it on the side of your course. __

Re: MRTG no SNMP

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Alston
Eugene Grosbein wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:47:33PM -0300, Eicke Felipe wrote: Is There a way to configure MRTG no SNMP? Yes. Just read its documentation. And this question isn't for this list. I disagree a bit, as this can be quite an interesting topic You can use ipfw counters and wr

Re: IPFW2 for IPv6 ??

2004-03-07 Thread Colin Alston
Joost Bekkers wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:12:39AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:47:38PM +0100, Joost Bekkers wrote: Hello Are there any plans to make IPFW2 work for IPv6? i posted some experimental code to the -network (or was it -ipfw ?) list early in

Re: Creating multiple IPs

2004-03-03 Thread Colin Alston
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 11:40:07AM -0500, Erik Sliman wrote: [...] Thank you. That worked. I read all the documentation I could find, which was very little. Basic networking requirements like this should be in the FreeBSD Manual. rc.conf man pages gave no examples, and d

Re: unable to ping or connect to freebsd

2004-02-22 Thread Colin Alston
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:29:32PM +0100, Sylvain Lemasson wrote: > > Hi, > > I have installed freebsd 5.2.1 and connect it to the > > network using ppp. it works well. I have access to > > internet but I am unable to ping the freebsd from > > another computer. The network card get the ICMP > >

VRRP and media sense/link state on old cards

2003-12-09 Thread Colin Alston
d argument Pretty much the same with lnc. Is there a way around this? Not so fun to replace all the cards :-/ (although they could probably do with it) I tried using it through the vlan device on the ed and lnc cards but that did nothing, just got the same error. -- Colin Alston karnaugh[at]karna