On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, G. T. Francisco, III wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:12:31AM +0000, chas said:
>> Pls excuse my ignorance here but if one is using ipchains or iptables,
>> is tcp wrappers now redundant ? (ipchains certainly seems so much more
>> flexible). Anybody using both ? 
>> 
>Yes, I use both. tcp wrappers provides more granular acces. For example,
>I have opened ssh via iptables but I restrict what hosts can connect via
>tcp wrappers.

You can restrict access to specific IP/hostnames using itptables too. The
fact that you use tcpwrappers instead is probably a matter of habit or
training; it's not a limitation of the software.



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