[SunRescue] RE: Why I am *quite* fond of my Linksys router...

[Paul Sladen]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jonathan Katz wrote:

> Sebastian wrote: (How's the XK140, btw?)
> > How do you? I haven't been able to persuade ipfilter to redirect ports
> > to a different host -- just to another IP address on the same host. The
> > only solution I see is to tunnel the ports to a different host (via ssh,
> > for example; I've looked for a simpler tunneling tool, but couldn't find
> > one.)
> 
> inetd && netcat (nc) can make for an interesting proxy/port passthrough.
> 
> inetd gives you a level of logging, and nc can map the port on one box to
> any port on any other box... with a quick perl or shell script it could
> act as a proxy.

Just one more example of why I would use Linux... built in
port-forwarding, etc, etc

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