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Re: port knocking



 On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:55:07PM -0400, Tom Metro wrote: 
> Of course. The objective of port knocking is really to just make a 
> service invisible to a scan, and avoid drawing attention to itself. 
> 
>  -Tom 

And, as a smaller beneficial side effect, it shrinks the size of 
your logfiles!  (No more brute force ssh attacks generating 
copious amounts of failed auth attempts. :-) ) 

Jeff Kinz 
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