Re: Ideas for v2.1
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Fri, 21 Jun 1996 09:59:17 +0100 (BST)
> I think what he's talking about is supporting access control lists for
> networking operations. i.e., I might want to be able to control which
> users can send datagrams to which TCP/UDP addresses and ports. This
> is very useful for people who run public-access systems and wish to
> only allow some users access to the "external" network.
Its often hard to tell who exactly owns which service, and many local
services have agents that then go and query remote hosts. It is doable for
protocols, the AX.25 protocol does it so you can have both radio amateur's and
non licensed users on the same machine. It does not do it for IP however as
its far more complex.
Alan