On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 02:27:36PM -0400, Eric Daigneault wrote: > For your curiosity... It's not my choice. > > The router is not our, it's a rental. And it's going to be cheaper to > install a fucking old machine with Linux on it instead of buying the > router.... No comment please.
OK. No comment but only questions. What did your C2600 do? Only routing? Any routing protocols running on it? See, your original question doesn't make sense at all. You say you want to use netfilter to have some feedback of the traffic on the machine. What do you mean by that? AFAIK, netfilter is a filter/nat tool, there are some nice logging functionality there too but if you're only interested in "having some feedback of the traffic", do it with snort (www.snort.org). In case you want to do dynamic routing do it with either gated or zebra (www.zebra.org). For traffic control you'll need to do some research on iproute2 package. Ramin > > Scouby > > At 12:22 2002-04-29 -0600, you wrote: > >Eric, > > Why are you replacing a Cisco 2600? (just out of curiosity). If I was > >to get serious with it, I'd install mandrake 8.2 on the linux box and have > >FreeSWAN for your VPN solution :) > > > >Vasiliy Boulytchev > >Colorado Information Technologies Inc. > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Eric Daigneault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 11:54 AM > >Subject: Cisco 2600 replacement > > > > > >> Hi everyone, > >> Soon, I will replace a Cisco 2600 by a Linux Box. I want to use Netfilter > >> to have some feedback of the traffic on the machine. I know that basicly, > >> Netfilter is use for security purposes, but i'm sure it can be veryuseful > >> in giving some feedback on plain routing. > >> > >> First, I want to know if anyone ever did that and a few tip would be > >> appreciated ???? And if it's worth it ?? of course. > >> > >> Then, off-topic unfortunatly, if someone ever did that switch, is there > >> anything I MUST know about the job a cisco router's doing compare to a > >> linuxbox. Don't tell me that I have to know the routing table.... I'm not > >> that stupid :-) But just some stuf that I might forget ??? > >> Thanks... > >> > >> P.S. I will also put a good traffic monitor on the box... The concept of > >> Netfilter is just to add some feed back. > >> > >> Scouby > >> > >> > >> >
