Re: IP Forwarding vs Proxy/Firewall

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From: Nick Andrew
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 00:00

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In <34556e84.5449986@192.168.0.1> whyza@mindless.com (Rossco) writes:

>I would like to know if this is still the case, if I now use linux
>instead of nt4, to forward packets to my second and third machines. I
>know linux can act as a firewall/proxy and do ip forwarding?  But if I
>choose ip forwarding will my  my isp strill need to upgrade thier
>routing tables? 

>Or is ip masquerading a better option?

You can use either. My preference when setting up these kind of things
is to use private network numbers on the "internal" side and IP
masquerade, but also a Squid proxy on the Linux gateway for all
HTTP and FTP requests. The Squid proxy will make things more efficient
for web and there's masquerade for other protocols. You'll probably want
to setup BIND on the Linux gateway as well.

Nick.
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From: nick@zeta.org.au (Nick Andrew)
Subject: Re: IP Forwarding vs Proxy/Firewall
Date: 1997/10/28
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