On Thursday 28 February 2002 02:34 pm, you wrote: > Yes I understand that. > I am using DROP. > Why does it show filtered? > As a drop policy on ipchains/ipfwadm, from what I've been told, is it drops > the packet, does not reply back, and therefore should NOT show a filtered > port. >
nmap guesses that the pachet has been filtered if it does not receive any answer from the scanned host & port That's why nmap shows filtered... and about the xmas and null scans just do a search on google with "xmas null iptables"
