Re: intent to package rinetd
Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> Here is the description:
>
> rinetd redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another.
> rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections
> to the address/port pairs specified in the file /etc/rinetd.conf. Since
> rinetd runs as a single process using nonblocking I/O, it is able to
> redirect a large number of connections without a severe impact on the
> machine. This makes it practical to run services on machines inside an IP
> masquerading firewall.
>
> The package has one binary, and one manpage. The copyright is GNU GPL. Any
> objections?
Well, no objections, but we already have the redir package, which seems to
do the same thing. However, it seems that rinetd is designed for more heavy
duty uses, right?
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