Hello!

I'm trying to completely understand the meaning of every bit of the port knocking configuration. I've modified it quite a bit and it works prefectly. My question is, though, what does the "--name" parameter do? I've modified it to something different and it works fine, but I would really like to know what it does and why I need it (and how my changes might break things!).

It seems that if you look at them as "rules macros" and if your action fits in a template they're easy to understand and well-documented. But I don't see any real great documentation for actions that *don't* fit in a template like port knocking. In fact, the port knocking example *is* the documentation! (Imagine my surprise in trying to read all of the documentation so that I can understand the port knocking setup only to be told to refer to it as an example! :) ). I've tried to read as much Shorewall documentation as I can but I don't see much infomration. Where should I turn at this point? Would it be better to delve more deeply into the raw iptables doc? I've looked in the iptables manpage for info, but it doesn't seem to mention --name either...

Tim Massey



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