[Gllug] Detecting attempts to contact another machine and actingon them

[Tom Schutzer-Weissmann]

On Monday 12 March 2007 17:35, Richard Cottrill wrote:
> > From: gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk
> > [mailto:gllug-bounces at gllug.org.uk] On Behalf Of salsaman
> > Sent: 12 March 2007 17:33
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > Another suggestion : set up iptables to log any packets with
> > destination IP of the other machine. Then just monitor the
> > size of the log file.
>
> In essence this seems to boil down to whether or not the Slug can be
> configured as a router/proxy.

It runs Debian, right?

If you can send syslog output to a pipe then presumably you can do what 
Gabriel suggested, use an iptables rule to watch for the relevant traffic, 
and send the log output to a listening process that's ready to fire off 
etherwake to TBM?

TomSW
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