Restricting machines by IP address to access the AIX server

[sreeja1611]

Hi,
Can anyone help how to restrict the machines by IP address from some other network to access my AIX server on different network.

thanks in advance
Ravikumar

 

[sectorseveng]

IPSEC might be what you are looking for, IBM has a tutorial at:

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/ipsec.html

 

[arvibm]

Hi,

have a look at FAQS which i have written.use command smitty ipsec4 to restrict telnet and ftp by ip address.for telnet use port number 123 and for ftp use port number 121.

regards

arvind

 

[BobMCT]

Or, you might want to review tcp/wrappers. This access utility uses the hosts.allow/hosts.deny files to control access. Works pretty well and easy to set-up.