RE: [pacnog] Tools for Testing of Firewalls

["Alex Abraham" <alex.abraham@samoatel.ws>]

How safe are these tools?  Do we need to do our own checks to ensure that
are working? 

ALex

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pacnog-bounces@pacnog.org [mailto:pacnog-bounces@pacnog.org] On
> Behalf Of Hervey Allen
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 July 2006 3:05 a.m.
> To: surfer@mauigateway.com
> Cc: pacnog@pacnog.org
> Subject: Re: [pacnog] Tools for Testing of Firewalls
> 
> Scott Weeks wrote:
> >
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Alex asked to test his firewall against:
> >
> >> 1.Against syn-flood:
> >> 2.Against udp/icmp flood:
> >> 3.Against Ping of death /Teardrop:
> >> 4.Against IP spoofing:
> >> 5.Against Smurf:
> >
> > Nmap, Nessus, Ethereal or Snort will not test the firewall
> > for reactions to the above attacks.
> >
> 
> Good point.
> 
> Check out Packet Storm and there DoS tools here:
> 
> http://packetstormsecurity.nl/DoS/
> 
> Cheers,
> 	- Hervey
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