How to test if SYN and FIN are both dropped at the same time in hping3?

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Published on 2011-02-04T04:58:45Z Indexed on 2011/02/04 7:27 UTC
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One of the rules to prevent unexpected attack is to prevent SYN & FIN being used together.

SYN and FIN are both set

$IPT -A INPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,FIN SYN,FIN -j DROP

How do I use hping to test if this iptable rule works? hping3 192.168.7.0 --keep -S -F??? Is this complete?

When just type iptables -L, it shows:

Chain INPUT (policy DROP) target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
DROP tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp flags:FIN,SYN/FIN,SYN

WHY do I need to put the "SYN,FIN" twice before drop? Is it because one for source and one for destination?

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