Re: TCP port firewall incl. description and english variable names

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

On 12.08.2011 17:34, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le vendredi 12 août 2011 à 17:10 +0200, Tonda a écrit :
>> Module that is used to open, close or filter specified TCP port by
>> sending certain sequence of UDP packets to predefined UDP ports
>> (password-like firewall). One sequence of UDP ports is the opening key
>> and sending packets successively to them opens the TCP port and the
>> second sequence of UDP ports is the closing key and sending packets
>> successively to them closes the TCP port. If between two UDP packets
>> in the sequence comes more than 16 another UDP packets, the sequence
>> (either opening or closing) is aborted. The configuration and view of
>> affected TCP port, opening and closing key and other firewall
>> parameters is made throw use of sysfs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Antoine Steinhauser <as@strmilov.cz>
> 
> Antoine
> 
> There is no chance this can be added in official linux kernel, its
> really too ugly, and can be implemented using standard iptables rules,
> and userland controller, adding encryption and other high level stuff if
> needed.

Fully agreed. There are also standarized protocols for this.