Thank you for your answer.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Buechler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] W.O.L. Security Question > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:39 AM, DarkFoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings all, > > > > I recently upgraded my pfsense platform to a new(er) motherboard with an > > integrated NIC with Wake On LAN. > > If I use this as my WAN interface, does it pose any security vulnerability? > > I do not see a way in the BIOS or as a jumper to turn off WOL. > > > > I would normally assume that it would get ignored by pfSense, as all > > unsolicited traffic is, but I want to be sure. > > > > The most anyone could do (barring some sort of future exploit in WoL, > which is unlikely) is turn on the machine if it's off. The default > firewall rules will block the WoL traffic when the machine is on, > though even if it didn't you can't wake a machine that's on already. >
