Quoting Joshua b. Jore (josh at greentechnologist.org): > Holy buttons Batman! That sounds awesome, especially for an ISP to run on > it's unused IPs. So Bob, what does this look like to your ISPish eyes? I > know I'd pay extra to be at the other end of an ISP with that sort of > defense around my IPs. Or ... jeepers. This might be cool for ipf to do > too. Tarpit the people doing scans. Right now I have my firewall report > all blocked ports as closed so a open but not used port looks identical to > the other 0xFF02 ports that aren't even open. I suppose that would confuse > the heck out of someone trying to scan the machine. I'll be sitting down with Nate and Carl and we will do some testing :-) Some scanning, some probing and some reporting back to the list. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9