[gentoo-user] Re: How to do port-based routing?

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2008-03-03, Jason Carson <jay@canuckster.org> 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.

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