Just a general question.
I know I can build IPTABLES to do security, firealling, stateful packet inspection... but I've had this nagging question: Can it do routing (IP routing) the same way CISCO IOS can ?
I'm looking for an easier-on-the-budget solution to some of my business' routing issues.
Thanks in advance.
Are you asking if _iptables_ can do routing or if _Linux_ can do routing? Linux as a whole can do almost everything that a Cisco router can do (I say "almost" because I don't know absolutely everything that Cisco can do these days).
Here's a good place to get started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_router_or_firewall_distributions
Jeffrey.
2009/3/23 Joe Brouhard jbrouhard@gmail.com
Just a general question.
I know I can build IPTABLES to do security, firealling, stateful packet inspection... but I've had this nagging question: Can it do routing (IP routing) the same way CISCO IOS can ?
I'm looking for an easier-on-the-budget solution to some of my business' routing issues.
Thanks in advance.
2009/3/23 Joe Brouhard jbrouhard@gmail.com:
Just a general question.
I know I can build IPTABLES to do security, firealling, stateful packet inspection... but I've had this nagging question: Can it do routing (IP routing) the same way CISCO IOS can ?
I'm looking for an easier-on-the-budget solution to some of my business' routing issues.
Thanks in advance.
There's a separate packing to do routing at that level.
Name : iproute Arch : i386 Version : 2.6.27 Release : 1.fc9 Size : 2.1 M Repo : installed Summary : Advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools URL : http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/Iproute2 License : GPLv2+ Description: The iproute package contains networking utilities (ip and rtmon, for : example) which are designed to use the advanced networking : capabilities of the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel
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