IP Personality
Platforms:
Linux
Categories:
Firewall,
Hostile Code,
Linux,
Sandbox,
System Security Management
Version: 20010724
URL: http://ippersonality.sourceforge.net/
The IP Personality project is a patch to the newer Linux kernels that adds netfilter functionalities : it enables the emulation of other OSes at the network level, thus fooling remote OS detection tools such as nmap that rely on network fingerprinting.