Automatic Firewall software?

[Paul Schmehl]

Frankly I hadn't thought of that.  You can configure portsentry to monitor 
any port *and* to ignore certain hosts, so I would think it could monitor 
port 22 although I haven't tested it personally.

--On Thursday, October 14, 2004 02:07:24 PM -0500 Peter Pauly 
<ppauly at gmail.com> wrote:

> Doesn't Portsentry ignore ports that have a service bound to them like
> the SSH daemon? In that case, it wouldn't help Brian's problem, since
> ssh is running, portsentry would ignore any attacks to port 22, right?



Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
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The University of Texas at Dallas
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