Is this problem solvable?

[Bill Davidsen]

Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> You haven't provided enough info, but I would guess no.  ssh would be
> the typical method for doing this.  Obviously, it is not possible to
> reboot a machine using ping.  So the question is are there any other
> working services you could use (rsh, vnc, X Server)?
> 
Actually there *is* a package to allow reboot via ping, it listens (like 
tcpdump) and finds a ping with a special secret content, and acts on it. I had 
it on a machine 5-6 years ago.

There was an  article, something like "A ping of death for Linux" in one of the 
mags, which is where I saw it. Don't see it after a quick look.

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