firewall

[Kevin Kinsey]

ilyana ramlan wrote:

>hello,
>i have another question,
>
>Do i have to install IPTable before configuring
>hosts.allow file?
>
>thanks
>  
>

No; TCP wrappers are independent of your firewall.

Also, and I'm ready to stand corrected, but iptable
isn't a part of FreeBSD, and aren't even ported AFAIK.

FreeBSD has ipfw, ipfilter, and ipf+altq, I believe.  See
the FreeBSD handbook, chapter 24.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey

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