Re: MASQ/Firewall on a Mac?

[Kevin van Haaren <kevin@vanhaaren.net>]

At 3:39 PM +0200 10/13/01, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-10-13 at 06:27, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> >  I'm thinking of setting up my Mac 8500 with Debian PowerPC to use it as a
> >  firewall and IP Masquerading server.  Does this work OK, and are there any
> >  issues I should know about?
> >
> >  Like does the kernel support for this work OK on PowerPC, and have the user
> >  space utilities been ported to PowerPC?
>
> Yes and yes. Such software shouldn't have any architecture dependencies
> so they would be very badly written if they didn't work out of the box
> in the first place.

The only caveat I would add is that if you want to use iptables
instead of ipchains, you'll need to get a 2.4 kernel that works
reliably on PowerPC.  I have been using a stock 2.4.10 kernel on a
C500 (603e chip) that seems to work pretty good (except for the
AdvanSys scsi drivers).  I don't run it as a masquerade/firewall box.

My masquerade/firewall box is a 7200/90 running stable, with a 2.2.x
kernel and ipchains.  works fine for me.

Kevin