IPFilter: A Unix Host-Based Firewall

With the advent of TCP wrappers and dedicated firewalling hardware, host-based firewall packages for unix operating systems have fallen by the wayside. Daemons such as inetd, xinetd, and tcpd allow hosts to effectively limit outside connections to an out-of-the-box unix distribution, and as such,...
By
Dana Price
June 1, 2002

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