[Gllug] Detecting attempts to contact another machine and acting on them

[Nix]

On 12 Mar 2007, salsaman at xs4all.nl stated:
> 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.

ITYM `set up iptables to route all packets to a netlink queue via the
NFQUEUE target and then read that queue from userspace and fire a WoL
packet if needed'.

Grepping logfiles for this is just horribly inefficient.

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