dru145 wrote:

Even better have the secondary firewall ssh (since it is a firewall, I don't want to use telnet) to the primary and test to see if the firewall daemon is running.

This doesn't answer your question, but I would be concerned about even allowing SSH to run on a firewall. Maximum security can be gained by ensuring that a person must be physically present at the firewall to do anything with it. Any time a remote connection is allowed, security is weakened.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: Is this possible in Perl? by Ovid
in thread Monitoring a firewall using ssh (was: Is this possible in Perl?) by dru145

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