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IPTABLE: does INVALID state match FIN, Xmas tree, and NULL packets?

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Does the rule 'iptables -I INPUT -m state --state INVALID -j DROP' get rid of those scans? Also, what exactly does INVALID match?

posted Nov 5, 2013 by Ahmed Patel

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