Anything like CHX-i ?

Discussion in 'other firewalls' started by TECHWG, Jul 9, 2008.

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  1. TECHWG

    TECHWG Guest

    I figured out a way, long ago, to use CHX to make it so i could close my important ports, and then run a open webserver, and if i visited a certain page, CHX would see the URL and recognise it, then i would trigger it to open the ports for that IP address... Im looking to do that again for my security, but as far as i know CHX-i is not defunked and not supported and old. Is there anything like this that i can close my ports, and be anywhere and open them simply by going to a web page with a special url or something?

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  2. Kerodo

    Kerodo Registered Member

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    CHX-I is no longer developed, but that doesn't make it useless, far from it. CHX-I 3.0 is probably what you used. It's around, someone here posted a link not too long ago. I would use it.

    The only other one anything like CHX might be 8Signs, but I have no idea if it could do what you're describing....

    http://www.8signs.com/
     
  3. Frederic

    Frederic LnS Developer

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    Hi,

    With Look 'n' Stop 2.06p2 and SPF Rules, it is possible to implement a port knocking mechanism.
    With this mechanism, an incoming connection from a remote machine will be accepted only if a sequence of several packets with certain ports is sent first.

    If you are interested in that mechanism, I can give more details in Look 'n' Stop forum, with this kind of SPF rules and an application sample which sends the corresponding port sequence.

    Regards,

    Frederic
     
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    Live & learn.
     
  6. Morthawt

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    Thanks for the info, it seems most port knocking has been knocked on the head since 2004, almost like some group dont want people to have it or something ! I dont know whats up with that... Thanks for the link though.:D
     
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