I wrote:
> And if I want to run different daemons on the same port number of different
> IP addresses? Or the same daemon but with different command-line
> arguments? I don't know any way to use ipfwadm to do that, and it was my
> primary objective.
"John D. Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
> Use the transparent proxy features. Run your services on non-standard ports,
> and redirect traffic to the standard ports to the appropriate service based the
> destination IP.
OK, I wasn't aware of that feature. I'll concede that it can be done. But
the whole purpose of inetd is to control what services run on what ports, and
it seems more logical to me to extend that to handle hosts, rather than
having to use a complicated firewall setup. Also, putting the functionality
in inetd provides better performance and less resource utilization.
I've heard of a FORTRAN compiler written in TECO, and I've seen ADVENTURE
translated to RPG II running on an IBM System 34, but just because something
can be done a certain way doesn't necessarily make it a good solution.
Since several people have asked me for the inetd patches, I've put together
RPMs for netkit-base-0.10-6 and uploaded them to incoming. They are also
available at
ftp://ftp.brouhaha.com/pub/eric/inetd/
I'm still hoping to get this feature into the standard inetd distribution,
but if not, I'll keep building new RPMs for each new Red Hat release.
Cheers,
Eric
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