Contents

  1. tcp-wrapper
    1. Availability and IPv6 support
    2. Description
    3. Comments
    4. Usage information
    5. Categories
    6. Source of information

tcp-wrapper

Availability and IPv6 support

Name

IPv6 support

Supported operating systems

tcp-wrapper

yes

UNIX, LINUX, *BSD. FreeBSD 4.x, OpenBSD 2.8 already contain integrated in the inetd and as libwrap library.

Description

TCP/IP daemon wrapper package. With this package you can monitor and filter incoming requests for the SYSTAT, FINGER, FTP, TELNET, RLOGIN, RSH, EXEC, TFTP, TALK, and other network services. The package provides tiny daemon wrapper programs that can be installed without any changes to existing software or to existing configuration files. The wrappers report the name of the client host and of the requested service; the wrappers do not exchange information with the client or server applications, and impose no overhead on the actual conversation between the client and server applications. Optional features are: access control to restrict what systems can connect to what network daemons; client user name lookups with the RFC 931 etc. protocol; additional protection against hosts that pretend to have someone elses host name; additional protection against hosts that pretend to have someone elses host address.

Comments

IPv6 version also available from ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/index.html

Usage information

Categories

CategoryApps, CategoryAppssysutils

Source of information

UME IPv6 repository

Campus6: Apps_tcp-wrapper (last edited 2008-04-10 15:29:33 by localhost)