Re: [LUG] Firewall Testing

[Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Johnson wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend a good site that can test my FW Box.  For some
> > reason IPCop don't seem too keen on the use of such sites.
>
> You want to use "Shields Up" on grc.com.
> Gives quite a thorough test.

Last time I tried it was very Windows biased.

Just fire a copy of nmap at it from the outside.

Depends on your security needs you might try some extra tools (nessus is
good), but few home users need more than a box that is offering minimum
services, and those patched uptodate.

My box does a certain amount of "active" defence - if you poke the wrong
ports you'll be backlisted till the firewall software is restarted
(about 2 months ago was the last restart so be warned). So if I go to
these kind of sites without disabling these features all it proves is
conecting to certain ports triggers a blacklisting.

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