Firestarter, at least when i tried it out, created too many unnecessary 
rules, made kind of a mess.

Brewing your own gives you a much finer grain of control.

On 5 Sep 2002, Anthony Abby wrote:

> Kevin, skip home-brewed IPTables and use firestarter
> (http://firestarter.sourceforge.net).  It'll write your IPTables for you
> as well as NAT and Port Forwarding.  Check it out.
> 
> Anthony
> 
> On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 21:06, Kevin - KD Micro Software wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've spoken to a couple of people who tried port forwarding using iptables
> > and apparently it's not an easy task to accomplish. I've tried myself and
> > don't seem to have any luck whatsoever either (after reading numbers of
> > HOWTOs etc) so I'm asking here as a last resort.
> > 
> > Just to makes things easier, i'll try to give as much info as possible,
> > using the following example:
> > I would like port 8181 on my Red Hat box (7.2, kernel 2.4.9-34, let's say ip
> > is 1.1.1.1 (example only)) to be forwarded to port 80 on internal machine IP
> > 1.1.1.2. I understand that machines on the internal network (eth0) would not
> > be able to make use of this, but as long as it works from the net connection
> > (ppp0) then that is ok. That's all I need. But, of course, if there is a way
> > where this would work for both then thats even better.
> > 
> > Has anyone actually managed to get this working right?
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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