On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-03, Jason Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
