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tcpwrappers as firewall and/or CL-GW

DISCUSSION __ Radien__ 2 participants 2 messages Apr 11, 2004

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Sure, Thx. Can u take some example of existing Circuit Level Gateways?

Socks is the usually-quoted example.

Regards,

Antony.

How about tcpwrappers, are they some kind of Circuit Lavel Gateway? (e.g. xinetd)

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Sure, Thx. Can u take some example of existing Circuit Level Gateways?

Socks is the usually-quoted example.

How about tcpwrappers, are they some kind of Circuit Lavel Gateway? (e.g. xinetd)

No. TCPwrappers is a response mechanism to see where a connection came from,
not a gateway in the middle of a connection between two machines.

Regards,

Antony.

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