Hello Kirk, I'll appreciate it ;)
Goggling gives a lot of links to libpcap based port knockers, but I dislike idea always running in promiscuous mode. Also "magic packet" is a sort of overkill for me, because I need access from random locations with different OS'es preferably without any additional tools. If computer is untrusted, after logon I can change knock sequence without leaving any keys behind. Even if password gets compromised is not so dangerous in this scenario. By iptables based I mean using ulog or ipq to forward packets to knock daemon, thus its undetectable from outside and can be very fast. About a year ago I tested 5 or 6 port knockers but I didn't find any suitable for me. Some had terrible cpu usage on my machine, some not enough flexible configuration. KH> Yes, there are. I use one for my work servers that is iptables based. KH> I don't have any links for you unfortunately but I have seen them. If KH> you are really interested I can probably track down one I saw that used KH> iptables and was a combination style. I also know of an open source KH> "magic packet" style that I could probably find a link for if you were KH> interested. -- Best regards, boger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
