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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!spoon.beta.com!mcgovern From: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian McGovern) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Internet security... Date: 30 Aug 1994 14:29:03 GMT Organization: BETA Mountain, Framingham, MA Lines: 16 Message-ID: <33vfnf$mjo@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: spoon.beta.com I remember back a month or so ago that people were talking about filtering telnet and ftp requests through various software packages. One appeared to replace the telentd, ftpd, etc with a short program that approved the incoming IP, and then called the real telentd or ftpd. A second package existed that was slightly more elaborate and secure in its handling methods (I think it replaced inetd). In any event, I thought I had saved the message, but I guess not. I'm not looking at an installation where this would be useful. Also, is there a similar feature than can be activated in a gated daemon (where the FreeBSD box is the router) so it will filter any attempts to forward packets from a "non-friendly" machine? Thanks. -Brian