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IPset (Linux Netfilter/IPTables)

Admin Guide Backends

IPsets are a powerful and highly efficient way of making a dynamic firewall on a normal Linux mac...

Updated 2 hours ago by Adam

HAProxy

Admin Guide Backends

HAProxy is a fantastic reverse proxy with a massive amount of features. Knocknoc has supported HA...

Updated 2 days ago by Adam

IPsets with Shorewall

Admin Guide Backends

This is an example that lets you use Shorewall https://shorewall.org/index.html and IPsets to dyn...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

SSH

Admin Guide Use Cases

SSH can be protected by Knocknoc in a number of ways: Local Linux firewall orchestration on th...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

VOIP

Admin Guide Use Cases

Having roaming users be able to use a handset from home, and protect your PABX from brute force a...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

Web application

Admin Guide Use Cases

There are various options for protecting your web application using Knocknoc Local Linux firew...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

Knocknoc with ADFS

Admin Guide Authentication

The following example assumes your Knocknoc instance is located at https://your-knocknoc.cloud/. ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

FortiOS, FortiProxy or SSL VPN

Admin Guide Use Cases

Protect your existing Fortigate investments from direct internet exposure by introducing Knocknoc...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

Ivanti Connect Secure

Admin Guide Use Cases

Ivanti Connect Secure devices that have an outer firewall or control layer can be protected from ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

Azure Portal

Admin Guide Use Cases

Azure Portal or specific Azure services can be further protected through the use of the Knocknoc ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

SAML with Gsuite as IDP

Admin Guide Authentication

Gsuite can be setup as an Identity Provider if you have Gsuite Business Startter or above plan. ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

IPsets with UFW

Admin Guide Backends

This is an example that lets you use UFW (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall) and IPse...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dylan

Local Authentication

Admin Guide Authentication

Knocknoc supports local users, and many will find that the fastest way to evaluate if Knocknoc is...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

SAML with EntraID (Azure AD)

Admin Guide Authentication

The following example assumes your Knocknoc instance is located at https://demo.knoc.cloud. Where...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Andy

SAML with Jumpcloud

Admin Guide Authentication

The following example assumes your Knocknoc instance is located at https://demo.knoc.cloud. Where...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dylan

LDAP

Admin Guide Authentication

Knocknoc can authenticate users to an LDAP server like Active Directory, by attempting to bind as...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

Remote Desktop

Admin Guide Use Cases

Using the HAProxy backend, or the script backed are both viable approaches. Given the excellent ...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Adam

Video

Admin Guide Use Cases

Streaming low-latency video is a challenge for firewalls and VPNs, and Knocknoc is an excellent s...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

AWS Infrastructure

Admin Guide Use Cases

Knocknoc ships with a script for updating security groups in AWS. Checkout the backend documentat...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Dave

Script Any Arbitrary Backend

Admin Guide Backends

The "script" backend type is simply a script the agent can execute that takes a fixed set of argu...

Updated 2 weeks ago by Andy