From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 16 12:24:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom1-018.telepath.com [216.14.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C547837B424 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 71481 invoked by uid 100); 16 Sep 2000 19:23:47 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14787.51394.938692.261953@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:23:46 -0500 (CDT) To: "Duke Normandin" Cc: Subject: Re: ipfw log to dmesg??!! not security.log??!! In-Reply-To: <008601c01f6f$33ad4c00$1e9bc5d1@odie> References: <008601c01f6f$33ad4c00$1e9bc5d1@odie> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Duke Normandin writes: > On Friday, September 15, 2000 3:15 PM Mike Meyer wrote: > I've been meaning to ask this list about the purpose and usage of > "tcp-wrapper". So now i know that it's a "userland firewall facility" -- > as opposed to a "kernel firewall facility" I assume. Would you mind > very briefly "fleshing out" your above description -- or a URL works > too ;^) Tia.... Try reading security/tcp_wrapper/pkg/DESCR in your machines ports tree - that's an excellent summary. You might also want to check on portsentry, pktsuckers, rid, and xinetd in that tree.