[Techtalk] iptables NAT forwarding...

[caitlynmaire at earthlink.net]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 09:46:38 -0400
"Davis, Jennifer" <JDavis at JUSTICE.GC.CA> wrote:

> This topic seems very interesting.  I never knew we could forward
> requests into a computer on the inside of the network.  I was
> wondering how this would be done on an IPchains setup. 

Hi, Jennifer, and everyone else,

You can't do it with ipchains.  That's why iptables was developed, to
allow for a true network address translation (NAT) table which wasn't
available with the older ipchains package.  

There are, of course, firewall packages out there that work with 2.2.x
and 2.0.x kernels, but I'm not aware of a really good open source one.

All the best,
Caity