We have been using tcp proxies
(simpleproxy/tcpproxy) to forward ports from our firewall to internal machines.
Recently I have changed this setup to regular iptables port forwarding. My
understanding is that since tcp proxies are daemons that accept connections from
the Internet and make connections to internal IPs, they would be a lot slower
than iptables (kernel-level routing?). Are there any advantages to running tcp
proxies instead of using port forwarding?
Carlo
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