From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 29 11:43: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt014n8c.san.rr.com (dt011n66.san.rr.com [204.210.13.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AA615617 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt014n8c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA31615; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:42:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:42:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt014n8c.san.rr.com To: Ian Diddams Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ?etc/services ports security In-Reply-To: <37F1EFD5.A0C6D140@freenet.uk.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Ian Diddams wrote: > If I have a service running on a tcp OR udp port - as in the > /etc/services file - (above 10000 FWIW) how can I make that port secure > with regard to "only deal with requests from certain IP numbers"? ipfw can deal with any port on your system. Check out the handbook and FAQ on the web page. Good luck, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message