Re: tcpwrappers as firewall and/or CL-GW

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On Sunday 11 April 2004 3:43 pm, __ Radien__ wrote:

> >> 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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