Hi,
Question: AlphaStation 200, Digital Unix 4.0D (PK3), two ethernet cards.
We have two ethernet networks connected to this machine. One is our internet
connection, and the other is a private network (10.* IP address space). We
want to start BOOTP and TFTP servers on the AlphaStation, but only so that they
service requests from the private network.
Is this possible?
I understand we can use TCP wrappers to filter out requests from the
non-private network, but this would not be nescessary if we could offer the
service only on to the private network, ie. allow the bootpd and tftpd
servers to bind to the host's 10.whatever IP address only.
Summary: In general "inetd" does not allow one to specify which IP addresses
various services should be listened on. Various list members suggested
programs such as "xinetd", which we are looking into.
I did say that we could use TCPWrappers to achieve what we want, but I'm not
sure of this anymore, as BOOTP 'BOOTREQUEST' packets won't necessarily have
a valid IP address (I think?).
Thanks to those people who replied. All replies were helpful and very quick
to arrive.
Scott
Received on Mon Mar 13 2000 - 00:52:18 NZDT