Re: [Shorewall-users] Port Knocking with WOL

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

mynullvoid wrote:
> The senario is: "A webserver with very P&C data which only turned on
> when there is a request, to further guard this webserver, when user A
> send correct sequence of port knock, the firewall will check if the
> webserver is on or off; if it's off; the firewall will send magic packet
> to power on the webserver (located in dmz). Later modify the iptables to
> allow the http traffic to the internal webserver by doing nat.
>  
> This is a part of what I want to do
>  

Then you need something other than Netfilter/Shorewall.

I'm unfamiliar with anything so Draconian. Possibly others on the list
can point you to a solution.

-Tom
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