Portsentry Configuration
Portsentry is a program designed to detect and repond to port scans against a target host in real time. It can do this in two ways - by listening on a set of selected ports (basic mode), or by monitoring all ports below a choice number. When a connection on one of the monitored ports is detected, Portsentry records the event in the logs and optionally takes action to block all further traffic from the connecting host.

The options on this page are :

At the bottom of the page is a button for either starting Portsentry (if it is not running), or stopping it (if it is running). Because Portsentry runs as a pair of background processes (or daemon), if it is not running no monitoring of port scans will be done.