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Re: GUI Scripts and more...
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Nir Yeffet wrote:
> > 4)when I work with ppp How can I prevent someone not to enter my
> > machine? do I use /etc/allow.host -or something like that ?
>
> If you want to use /etc/hosts.* you must compile your kernel with IP
> firewall enabled.
IPFW is a linux thing, and hosts.{deya|allow} is a tcp wrapper thing,
which exists on many other unices, and naturaly predates the linux IPFW...
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