Re: [Nolug] linux firewall distro's that support ip aliasing with port forwarding

I don't know if it will handle all you are looking for, but you might give:
www.smoothwall.org a look.

David J wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Does anyone happen to know of any Linux firewall
> distributions that natively support IP aliasing with port forwarding?
> When I say natively, I mean easily; no manual reworking of firewall
> rules to make it work (I’ve tried that and it’s very time consuming).
> In other words, are there any distro’s that makes it really easy to
> setup your aliases and firewall rules, perhaps all in one nice little
> utility?
>
> I am using clarkconnect 1.3 right now with Cox and
> everything is just great. What I really want to do is add another IP
> address (provided by Cox of course) to my eth0, which would be eth0:0,
> this is easy enough. The part that gets me is making port forwarding of
> the alias work. So, instead of trying to reinvent the wheel with my
> existing setup; I figure it would be best to “change the wheel” if there
> is another wheel out there that would work for me. (Pardon my overuse
> of analogies.) Any suggestions? Thanks.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> David B. John
>
>
>

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