IPTABLES Questions: CISCO-style routing?

[Jeffrey Watts]

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 at 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.
>
>
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