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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 1996 10:06:11 -0500
From:      Brian Clapper <bmc@telebase.com>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Chuck Murcko <chuck@telebase.com>
Subject:   Re: tripwire, xinetd (or tcp wrappers)
Message-ID:  <199602131506.KAA03226@telebase.com.>
In-Reply-To: <127245926@toto.iv>

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>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> writes:

Mark> Jim Dennis wrote:
>>
>> Where can I find tripwire?  How about xinetd?

Mark> Neither have been ported to FreeBSD. Tripwire is available from cert
Mark> (ftp.cert.org) and xinetd is a bunch sharfiles + later patches
Mark> available from ftp.uu.net and mirrors in (something like)
Mark> usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume??/xinetd/part* and
Mark> usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume??/xinetd/patch*
Mark> I seem to remember that there are a couple of patches in different
Mark> volumes spread over a bit of time.

`xinetd' *has* been ported to FreeBSD, by Chuck Murcko (chuck@telebase.com).
Check out ftp://ftp.telebase.com/pub/security/xinetd.2.1.7-freebsd.4.tar.gz

I'm using it on a FreeBSD box, as is Chuck.  We use it here on a variety of
platforms to which it was not originally ported by its author, Panos
Tsirigotis.

>> Is xinetd faster (suffering from less process start latency)
>> than tcpd?

Mark> Fractionally. Probably not even so you'd notice.

IMO, xinetd's somewhat simpler to use than the inetd/tcp-wrappers
combination.
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