nfnl_osf — OS fingerprint loader utility
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Description
The nfnl_osf utility allows one to load a set of operating system signatures into the kernel for later
matching against using iptables' osf match.
Exit Status
Exit status is 0 if command succeeded, otherwise a negative return code indicates the type of error which
happened:
-1 Illegal arguments passed, fingerprints file not readable or failure in netlink communication.
-ENOENT
Fingerprints file not specified.
-EINVAL
Netlink handle initialization failed or fingerprints file format invalid.
Files
An up to date set of operating system signatures can be downloaded from http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-
bin/cvsweb/src/etc/pf.os .
Name
nfnl_osf — OS fingerprint loader utility
Options
-ffingerprints
Read signatures from file fingerprints.
-d Instead of adding the signatures from fingerprints into the kernel, remove them.
See Also
The description of osf match in iptables-extensions(8) contains further information about the topic as
well as example nfnl_osf invocations.
iptables 1.8.11 NFNL_OSF(8)
Synopsis
nfnl_osf-ffingerprints [ -d ]
