Re: Port Knocking questions

[H Carvey <keydet89 () yahoo com>]

In-Reply-To: <LAW9-F14WVY5jVkjA2D000063ea () hotmail com>


> I have a few questions about port knocking.  First of all, is it a hacker 
> tool or a security tool? 

Since I'm sure you did a Google search already, I guess the answer to that question would be, "depends on how you 
implemented it...".

> Does it require the hacker to be able to ping the 
> device?

Again, it depends on the implementation.  If the author of the application using port knocking requires an ICMP packet 
to be in the mix, then the answer would be "yes".

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