firewall rule testing

BruceLee · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:29 pm

Hi,

general question of interest.
How do you test more complex firewall rulesets?
Usually I test it with a combination of dev environment, netcat and wireshark plus standard tools like ping, bping, trace route etc.
What do you take for that purpose?

Thanks for any participation

scott · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:31 pm

nmap is a great tool for it.

Theres a whole chapter in the book about this btw.

BruceLee · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:47 pm

ahh, great to know. Thanks. Time to buy your book

What do you think about the book from Gordon “Fyodor” Lyon additionally?
http://www.amazon.com/Nmap-Network-Scanning-Official-Discovery/dp/0979958717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279997172&sr=8-1

mikeshinn · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:43 am

Considering that he wrote nmap, I'm sure its spot on. :-)

BruceLee · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:02 pm

Thanks a lot. I will get yours...if needed the other one too.
I want to check the content of the book in a bookstore first.

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