Re: IP Forwarding vs Proxy/Firewall

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From: Henrik Storner
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 00:00

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

>Been up and running with linux for a few months now and I would like
>to use linux as a firewall/proxy for my home lan.

>I have 3 machines, a dedicated linux box, a winnt server, and a win95
>workstation.
>I currently run the proxy service from a winnt server machine, using
>wingate, a proxy server.

IP masquerading will let you do that, and your network access from the
Win* boxes will be transparent - the Linux box takes care of modifying
and forwarding packets between your internet connection and your local
network.

Your ISP does not need to do anything - the setup is invisible to the
outside (it seems as if all traffic is coming from your Linux box).

Check out the masquerading docs - http://www.indyramp.com/masq/  

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Henrik Storner                               http://www.image.dk/~storner/ 
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From: storner@image.dk (Henrik Storner)
Subject: Re: IP Forwarding vs Proxy/Firewall
Date: 1997/10/28
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