On Friday 19 November 2004 07:52 am, Bill Jonas kindly wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:55:37PM -0700, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > I don't even understand what RAW sockets are or what they do. Can anyone
> > elucidate? Will I have any unusual problems setting this up because of
> > the RAW sockets being disabled?
>
> Steve Gibson (whatever you think about him) does a fairly decent job
> explaining this. On his page at <http://grc.com/dos/winxp.htm>, there
> are a couple sections starting with "What are 'Sockets'? And why are
> some of them 'Raw'?" that have useful information, if you ignore the
> alamist tone and sensationalism.
>
> Hope that helps.
Thanks, Bill. I've read that and am reading some other pages about RAW
sockets, too, like
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=27289&redir=1
I "think" I found my answer for the purpose of using IPcop, which I believe
uses nmap as one of it's tools. That is, that completely disabling RAW
sockets in WindXP disables nmap running on WinXP. So if sysadmin was using
WinXP for security monitoring and stuff, nmap might not work.
I don't think it would affect nmap on the Linux firewall box, though. I hope
I'm right. (this is so much to learn in a week)
Siri Amrit
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