Re: Filter to block incoming ether0 telnet?

James Shelburne (reilly@eramp.net)
Fri, 16 May 1997 10:23:38 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 16 May 1997, Jake Messinger wrote:

> But each keystroke will be in a different packet. Maybe if you wait a LONG
> TIME ;-). Hrm, would it help to change the telnet port to something
> OBSCURE? Then the packets would not have a 23 in them indicating that it
> was a telnet packet.

Most network "sniffers" track actual TCP connections so are not fooled by
having the data broken up in seperate packets.

James
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