[ale] Which is the preferred portfowarding method.

JK jknapka at kneuro.net
Tue Jun 9 11:26:46 EDT 2009


Brandon Colbert wrote:
> Either one will work. If this is a firewall, I would use iptables. If 
> the server is setting behind a firewall, you can use rinetd or redir.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Atlanta Geek <atlantageek at gmail.com 
> <mailto:atlantageek at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     which is the preferred port forwarding method
>     rinetd
>     iptables.
> 
>     I'm leaning towards rinetd but am making a recommendation to a
>     customer and dont want to be laughed at by their full-time sysadmins.


Nice thing about iptables, it's pretty much guaranteed to be there.
I don't have rinetd or redir on my Ubuntu box, so obviously those
don't get installed by default everywhere.

-- JK

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