Is this problem solvable?

[Giuseppe Fuggiano]

2009/1/7 Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net>:
> Before leaving home on a visit to Italy (where I am now)
Welcome to Italy ;)

> I noticed that shorewall did not print out its usual messages,
Which messages?

> but foolishly did not check what caused this.
> Now I can ping the machine,
If you can ping the machine so I guess it's up and running.

> but cannot ssh into it (I chose a strange port)
> or access its web-server.
If you got that port reachable from the internet, but you don't
remember the ssh port number you used, you could scan your IP to
discover it using, for example, nmap.

> My question is: given that I can ping the machine,
> is there any way I can re-boot it remotely,
> or even just re-start shorewall?
No, using ping only :-)

Cheers
-- 
Giuseppe Fuggiano