NAME¶
cutter - cut tcp/ip connections
SYNOPSIS¶
cutter
ipaddress1 [
port1 [
ipaddress2 [
port2
] ] ]
DESCRIPTION¶
Cutter is an open source program that allows Linux firewall
administrators to abort TCP/IP connections routed over the firewall or router
on which it is run.
WARNING¶
Cutter has been designed for use as a administrators tool for Linux
firewalls. It's use (as is, or modified) for any other purpose is not
sanctioned by the author. So - do not use this tool as a parachute, or to dry
your cat, chill meat, answer your phone, drive you car, teach your kids to
read or attack other people's computer systems or networks.
This software has been designed for
legal and
appropriate use by
network security administrators and the like. It has been written as part of a
larger Linux firewall project, targetting at controlling traffic from
peer-to-peer software such as Kazaa, iMesh and others into and out of a
private network. It is not designed as a tool for malicious use and the author
in no way sanctions such use.
Users of the software should be aware that it's actions are easily detectable
using a number of readily available network monitoring tools, and it makes no
attempt to disguise it's actions. Malicious use of "cutter" could
result in a jail sentance in a number of countries around the world.
The author is not responsible for the results of using this software. It is
provided "as is" in the hope that it will be useful, but no
garantees are made about it's use.
USAGE¶
Cutter can be called using one of the following four syntaxes.
cutter ip-address
Example:
cutter 10.10.0.45
Cuts all connections passing through the firewall between any ports on the
specified ip-address (either a "private" or "public"
address) and any other hosts. This can be used to close down all incoming
connections to a particular server, all outgoing connections from a particular
client or all outgoing connections to a server.
cutter ip-address port
Example:
cutter 200.1.2.3 80
Cuts all connections to or from the specified ip-address/port pair. This allows
the user to be a little more specific than the previous example and allows
targetting of specific services on specific hosts.
cutter ip-address-1 port-1 ip-address-2
Example:
cutter 200.1.2.3 22 10.10.0.45
Cuts all connections between ip-address-2 and ip-address-1/port-1. This allows
the user to cut connections between a specified "client" and a
particular service on a specified host. Our example closes host 10.10.0.45's
SSH connection to server 200.1.2.3.
cutter ip-address-1 port-1 ip-address-2 port-2
Example:
cutter 200.1.2.3 22 10.10.0.45 32451
Cuts the specific connection between the two ip/port number pairs given.
STATUS¶
Cutter 1.03 should be considered
EXPERIMENTAL. The author is releasing a
tool that works on the systems he has access to (namely: IPCop and RedHat
Linux), and he is seeking input on it's use on other systems, ideas for
improvement, offers of sponsorship - etc.
ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION¶
This program is documented at
http://www.lowth.com/cutter/
AUTHOR¶
Blars Blarson addapted the README and web page written by Chris Lowth into this
man page for debian package of cutter. This man page may be distribuated under
the terms of the Gnu GPL version 2.
