From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWH1C-00042W-HA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:12:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45B2AE0647; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A027E0647 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 20:12:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b22so196245rvf.46 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:12:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=+IHhUJjDH0tE5Vi7axRnlooKqKY5dvOgGLAADzJHji0=; b=Xgbhyh6/6xqcq5mqii4bPH5klVeMnCCvNd37rRpDpqONcG2yIPHzcIeloa72NZ+XnfIcpSVDEwdOXZN9+nNCfTk56uS3YxU8aB8gjq/KdUiyhGda4nABuFRcuPlRVfz2R8W5VcRayX14d1QAmLykUqyWMrUliiMiHo5eDUYlQ74= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LlcvK1GpuhR6ErUVcFr3mUe3g9xs4ViM9oZ3h8oPsEdLyGCzWrtXwacg9alWhvFc03cYqdZf+yH4GmGwm0s+NC9g85Wyn0xgoXH6T58gJ5o9R9cnZmF+/mSITCWAD8Y11Byjh1t2uoDOWu4arjupLhoat2ISZ5r091MLFMu9koI= Received: by 10.140.179.25 with SMTP id b25mr397879rvf.117.1204575131061; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:12:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.43.7 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:12:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ef07b8c0803031212m1dc38f75y26bb84e6995b596a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:12:10 -0500 From: "Dan Cowsill" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to do port-based routing? In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1699.192.168.0.96.1204571480.squirrel@canuckster.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9f174f0f-a039-421c-bcae-32eee6aead04 X-Archives-Hash: 86bd030a62c4f93efc7414b205c437af On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-03-03, Jason Carson wrote: > >> I'm trying to figure out how to do port-based routing. I found > >> a HOWTO that does pretty much exactly what I'm trying to do: > >> > >> http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/iproute2.html > >> > >> However, it's using iptables, which I thought was deprecated, > >> but there are iptables versions as recent at three months ago, > >> so it still seems to be maintained. The above page has > >> references to the "Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control" > >> site at www.lartc.org, but that site appears to be long-gone. > >> > >> What's the recommended interface for doing advanced routing > >> stuff? > > > > There are many interfaces but they are all frontends to > > iptables. Personally I just did a lot of reading and built my > > firewall from scratch. > > I found shorewall and firestarter, but neither looked very > useful to me: > > 1) They're both designed for configuring firewalls, and I'm > not building a firewall machine. > > 2) Neither seemed to have any way to specify port-based routing. > > So it looks like plain iptables is the way to go. > > -- > Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want another > at RE-WRITE on my CEASAR > visi.com SALAD!! > > -- > > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > I hate to plug a non-gentoo distro, but if you're building yourself a linux firewall and you want to do so without rtfm'ing, smoothwall is the way to go. -- Dan Cowsill http://www.danthehat.net -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list