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

There's always Freesco (www.freesco.org) if you want to set up a
separate box such as a 486 as a dedicated router. All you need is a
486 with 16meg RAM and no hard drive. Sets up in minutes.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pltaylor <pltaylor@sstar.com>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] linux firewall distro's that support ip aliasing
withport 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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