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Linux Firewalls
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Linux Firewalls

by Michael Rash
September 2007
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 7m
English
No Starch Press
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Deploying fwknop

Now that you have a good understanding of the configuration options available in fwknop, it's time for a few meaty operational examples. In each case, the fwknop client is used to gain access to SSHD through a default-drop iptables policy after reconfiguration by the fwknop server. The network diagram in Figure 13-1 should help you to visualize these scenarios.

An SPA network

Figure 13-1. An SPA network

In each scenario below, the fwknop client is executed on the system labeled spaclient, and the SPA packet is sent to the system labeled spaserver. The dotted line in Figure 13-1 represents the SPA packet, and the follow-on SSH connection can only ...

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