newbie firewall concerns port 68 open

[Stephen]

but at gibson it shows port 68 is open and port 67 is closed and all the other ports are in stealth mode..

i installed firestarter which didn't seem to do much so i then used this line

/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -j DROP

which put all but two ports in to stealth mode

any advice on how to stealth these 2 ports ??


cheers

/Knoppix/Knewbie/

Try /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 68 -j DROP a good tutorial and sample script are here and there are a couple of other firewalls available such as Guarddog and Bastille-Linux in Debian.