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Port knocking

Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:09 pm
by dnf
Hello,

I just installed Gargoyle 1.12 on my Archer C7 V2 and everything is working from GUI.
Next I want to install knockd (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/ser ... ock.server) but after executing:

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opkg install knockd
I have info:

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ERROR: No package named knockd found, try updating your package lists
I tried to update packages with

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opkg update
But this not change anything. Can anyone advise me what I have to do to install knockd?

Re: Port knocking

Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:19 pm
by Lantis
At the bottom of the article it states that this package was never sent to the recent Openwrt package repository, and that a manual compile and install is required.
So you can try that, or you can try fwknop, which advertises itself as "next generation port knocking", and is available.

Re: Port knocking

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:07 am
by dnf
Thanks for info - I have missed this information at the bottom.
I see that on OpenWrt there is luci-app-fwknopd with some GUI. Is there any GUI option for Gargoyle?

Re: Port knocking

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:29 pm
by Lantis
No.
I had never even heard of the concept of port knocking until this thread. :)

What may be useful is installing Openwrt and using LUCI to setup fwknop, then you can save the config and reuse it manually with Gargoyle

Re: Port knocking

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 4:37 pm
by dnf
I was thinking about installing OpenWRT - question is when updating from Gargoyle what steps should I take?

1. Factory
2. Sysupgrade
3. Back to stock image and than factory

Thanks for support.

Re: Port knocking

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:56 pm
by Lantis
Just a sysupgrade will be fine. Make sure you dont preserve your settings.
Sometimes when moving between versions you need to use the command line to force the image, but thats uncommon