I forgot to mention that I don't know the IP's of the remotes, they will change all the time. However, they do use curl to authenticate to php so have been looking for a way to cobble something together.
I could have php quickly add the IP of the remote to iptables, reload once it is authenticated but since there would be many remotes connecting at any given time, that seems like an accident waiting to happen. I also wondered if there is a way that php might be able to control the iperf port or service but that seems to be a dead end. I then wondered if there might be a fork of iperf which might allow me to do this but I've not found anything yet. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandro Bureca" <sbur...@gmail.com> To: m...@grounded.net Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 6:21:29 AM Subject: Re: [Iperf-users] protecting iperf behind public server You can use iptables on the machine acting as iper sever if this solution is applicable and apply filter on source ip address and the standarf iperf port 5001 or any other at your choice On 16 November 2014 00:39, m...@grounded.net < m...@grounded.net > wrote: I have a number of logging devices which connect home over the internet. Each device calls home using curl, authenticating part htpasswd then onto a php app. I wanted to add iperf as a test to know where there are bandwidth issues but I need to protect iperf to allow only my own devices to use the server and iperf running as a daemon/service. Was wondering if anyone in this list might have to thoughts on how this could be done, so that I could retain my htpasswd/php authentication and perhaps even use that. Might there be a way of having php allow the iperf connection perhaps? Thanks kindly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Iperf-users mailing list Iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Iperf-users mailing list Iperf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/iperf-users
