RE: [PEN-TEST] Detecting the presence of a firewall

Pls clarify the ff:

Can NMAP crash a Solaris machines running FW-1
by doing UDP scan including port 0...

Regards,
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Knobbe [mailto:FKnobbe_at_KnobbeITS.com]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:36 PM
To: PEN-TEST_at_securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: [PEN-TEST] Detecting the presence of a firewall

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> From: railwayclubposse_at_hushmail.com
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> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:44 AM
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> For Checkpoint, use nmap and do a TCP and OS detection scan.
> If they are
> doing one-to-many NAT the machines will be detected as
> "behind a Checkpoint
> Firewall-1 4.1 SP2 Server" or whatever. The firewall itself
> is likely to
> have some combination of TCP ports 256-259, 264-265 open for
> management,
> auth, key exchange, etc.

What criteria is nMap using? What would the result be if a) the
well-known-Checkpoint-ports are closed, and b) the default TTL has
been monkied with? (Not you, Doug)

Regards,
Frank

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Received on May 15 2001