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On 2008-03-03, Jason Carson <jay@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> I'm trying to figure out how to do port-based routing. I found |
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>> a HOWTO that does pretty much exactly what I'm trying to do: |
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>> http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/iproute2.html |
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>> However, it's using iptables, which I thought was deprecated, |
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>> but there are iptables versions as recent at three months ago, |
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>> so it still seems to be maintained. The above page has |
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>> references to the "Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control" |
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>> site at www.lartc.org, but that site appears to be long-gone. |
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>> What's the recommended interface for doing advanced routing |
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>> stuff? |
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> There are many interfaces but they are all frontends to |
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> iptables. Personally I just did a lot of reading and built my |
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> firewall from scratch. |
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I found shorewall and firestarter, but neither looked very |
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useful to me: |
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1) They're both designed for configuring firewalls, and I'm |
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not building a firewall machine. |
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2) Neither seemed to have any way to specify port-based routing. |
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So it looks like plain iptables is the way to go. |
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