Re: Help a sshd newbie! (Here is the results from that script)

[Robert Citek <rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org>]

On Saturday, May 15, 2004, at 10:43 US/Central, bja@Illinois.DynDNS.Org 
wrote:
> I have a couple ideas here. First, there's probably an option somewhere
> that does the equivilent of the sysctls settings on the various bsds.
> Basically, you can make it a blackhole and not respond to anything by
> setting kernel variables. I bet that mandrake's secure setting does 
> this
> and then the kernel discards ICMP packets. I of course don't know what
> this is called in linux, but check the /proc filesystem or the 
> equivilent
> in 2.6. Perhaps our list provider knows about this? (Steve, are you
> listening?)

Just like in *BSD:

   /sbin/sysctl -a

Might be worth looking at the net.* settings:

   /sbin/sysctl -a | grep '^net' | less

Regards,
- Robert


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